Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa - Couverture rigide

Blumenthal, Michael; Miljo, Rita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0912887389 ISBN 13 : 9780912887388

Editeur : Aequitas Books, 2016

Synopsis

In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure-filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night.

"A lot of people have asked me whether they could write 'my book, ' Rita wrote to Michael shortly thereafter, "and I said no, because I was envisaging a story both sad and happy, but certainly mixed with a lot of humor. But if you asked me, I would not say no." With that, for the only time in her life, Rita entrusted another human being with thirty years' worth of her journals, and a rare and unusual collaboration was born. Because They Needed Me is that story, a chronicle of primate conservation and the intrepid and courageous woman who devoted her life to it. It is like no other book of its kind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1974 and is currently Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at The West Virginia University College of Law. In his free time, he reads and thinks about primates of all sorts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aequitas Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0912887389
• ISBN 13: 9780912887388
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible