This book had won an Audie Award for best audio book in the biography/memoir category and I thought I would give it a try. Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of ‘rogue’ elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa. The elephants were to be killed if he wouldn't take them in,...
This is a wonderful book not very well written. The story is so remarkable and compelling that it transcends the so-so writing. But Anthony isn't a writer -- he's a conservationist who owns a game reserve in South Africa and he can be excused because what he gives us is as true as it is beautif...
Not just a wonderful book about one man's efforts to save the black rhino from extinction, but his side involvement with the Lord's Resistance Army in the DRC. This part of the book really sheds light on the rebels and proves there are two sides to every story. The sad part is that the author d...
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly all the ...
Most importantly I wanted to continue investigating some strange aspects of their communication that intrigued me. I had opened the door to a brave new world and wanted to take advantage of every minute in the bush alone with them. I was on foot searching for elephants on a hot afternoon, when fo...
Both of us were sweating profusely, and it was not just from the heat blasting off the desert. I leaned forward, poised on the balls of my feet, my fists clenched and white-knuckled. “This is private property,” he hissed at me in Arabic. “You have no right to be here.” The sentence was translated...