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An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
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Daphne Sheldrick’s best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa’s greatest living conservationist.A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade.An African Love Story is the incredible memoir of her life. It tells two stories – one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park and its famous warden, David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne and David, who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans, at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive. ‘Compulsively readable’, Mail on Sunday’An enchanting memoir’, TelegraphDaphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.267 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 384 |
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| Year Published | 2013-1-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0670919713 |
| About The Author | Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen. |
| Review Quote | Compulsively readable…the more you hear about elephants from her, the more you wonder why they don't rule the world |
| Other text | An enchanting memoir…Baby birds, antelopes, elephants, rhinos and a civet cat all pass through Sheldrick's life |
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