Love, Life, and Elephants
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Daphne Sheldrick
Nature / Animals / Wildlife
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
"ASTONISHING...YOU MAY BE TEMPTED AFTER TURNING THE LAST PAGE TO SELL ALL YOUR POSSESSIONS AND JOIN THE CAUSE."—THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Sheldrick has bottle-fed baby elephants, donned cricket gear to ward off charging baby rhinos and shared bathtubs with dik-diks (tiny antelopes no taller than a ruler)....What shines through is her authentic love for the land and its creatures….[She] herself is a rare bird."—More
The first person to successfully raise newborn elephants, Dame Daphne Sheldrick has saved countless African animals from certain death. In this indelible and deeply heartfelt memoir, Daphne tells of her remarkable career as a conservationist, and introduces us to a whole host of orphans—including Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope, and the majestic elephant Eleanor. Yet she also shares the incredible human story of her relationship with David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden whose death inspired the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery, where Daphne works to this day. From her tireless campaign to preserve Kenya's wildlife to the astonishing creatures she befriended along the way, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing rare insight into the life of one of the world's most fascinating women.
Nature / Animals / Wildlife
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
"ASTONISHING...YOU MAY BE TEMPTED AFTER TURNING THE LAST PAGE TO SELL ALL YOUR POSSESSIONS AND JOIN THE CAUSE."—THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Sheldrick has bottle-fed baby elephants, donned cricket gear to ward off charging baby rhinos and shared bathtubs with dik-diks (tiny antelopes no taller than a ruler)....What shines through is her authentic love for the land and its creatures….[She] herself is a rare bird."—More
The first person to successfully raise newborn elephants, Dame Daphne Sheldrick has saved countless African animals from certain death. In this indelible and deeply heartfelt memoir, Daphne tells of her remarkable career as a conservationist, and introduces us to a whole host of orphans—including Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope, and the majestic elephant Eleanor. Yet she also shares the incredible human story of her relationship with David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden whose death inspired the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery, where Daphne works to this day. From her tireless campaign to preserve Kenya's wildlife to the astonishing creatures she befriended along the way, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing rare insight into the life of one of the world's most fascinating women.
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