An African Love Story - Love, Life And Elephants (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Having good fortune in life is not about accumulating material goods and meeting individuals who glitter with star power. Instead, a fortunate life is one that's rich in experience, both painful and joyful. Daphne Sheldrick has led such a life and she has the grace to recognize her good fortune. I once heard that the real trick where love is concerned is not in simply giving it, but knowing how to receive it. Ms. Sheldrick most definitely knows how to give of herself. But it's in her deep respect for animals and their right to self determination that she establishes that she also knows how to receive love. In other words, as painful as it is, she knows how to accept the return to the wild of the animals she cared for and brought to health. She knows that love cannot be about possession. I give this book 4 stars because of Daphne Sheldrick. She is an amazing woman and I am humbled by the example that she sets for us. Blurb: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.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.Review:I LOVED this book. I love memoirs and Daphne Sheldrake took it to a whole new level. Her descriptions were so vivid, I felt that I was watching a movie in my mind. This book is well worth reading. You would not be disappointed!
What do You think about An African Love Story - Love, Life And Elephants (2012)?
To be fair, I never finished the book. It was a book club selection I never got around to reading.
—Dustin
Anyone thats interested in the conservation of wildlife should read this book.
—Jabbers23
I'm moving to Africa to raise baby elephants! What a different life.
—jahelson
