Book description
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', Telegraph
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.
