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    An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
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    An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
    Audiobook14 hours

    An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants

    Written by Daphne Sheldrick

    Narrated by Virginia Mckenna

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    About this audiobook

    The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of An African Love Story, Daphne Sheldrick's touching memoir about romance, life and elephants from Africa's greatest living conservationist. Read by Virginia McKenna, the star of Born Free and the Founder Trustee of the Born Free Foundation.

    An African Love Story is the incredible memoir of the life of Africa's greatest living conservationist. It tells two stories. The first is the Tsavo years, and the extraordinary love story which blossomed when the young Daphne, moved to Tsavo with her first husband and fell head over heels with both the 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.

    This recording contains a bonus track featuring an interview with Virginia McKenna in which she talks about her own conservation work and her friendship with Daphne Sheldrick.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin UK Audio
    Release dateMar 15, 2012
    ISBN9780670922079
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    An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
    Author

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Dame Daphne Sheldrick is a Kenyan author, conservationist, and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild. From 1955 to 1976, Sheldrick was co-warden of Kenya’s Tsavo National Park.

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      A heart-warming story of people communicating with animals, protecting Kenya's national parks, and rescuing orphaned animals and returning them to the wild.