Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

Sheldrick, Daphne

ISBN 10: 0374104573 / ISBN 13: 9780374104573

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012

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Synopsis :

Love, Life, and Elephants In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Sheldrick shares her amazing relationships with a host of animal orphans, and her magical and heartbreaking human love story with a famous Tsavo Park warden. Full description

Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love ...
Éditeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Good
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