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  • Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

    Daphne Sheldrick, Virginia McKenna, Macmillan Audio

    Audible Audiobook (Macmillan Audio, May 8, 2012)
    Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death. In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship. But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day. Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
  • Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Paperback (Picador, June 25, 2013)
    "Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause."―The Boston GlobeThe first person to successfully raise newborn elephants, Dame Daphne Sheldrick has saved countless African animals from certain death. In this indelible and deeply heartfelt memoir, Daphne tells of her remarkable career as a conservationist and introduces us to a whole host of orphans―including Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope, and the majestic elephant Eleanor. Yet she also shares the incredible human story of her relationship with David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo National Park warden whose death inspired the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the orphans' nursery, where Daphne works to this day. From her tireless campaign to preserve Kenya's wildlife to the astonishing creatures she befriended along the way, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing rare insight into the life of one of the world's most fascinating women.
  • Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

    Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick

    eBook (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 8, 2012)
    Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death. In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship. But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day. Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
  • Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 8, 2012)
    Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death. In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship. But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day. Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
  • African Love Story,An

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Paperback (Viking, May 1, 2012)
    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.
  • Story of an African, The

    Olive Schreiner

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Classics, April 1, 1993)
    The classic tale of a beautiful young woman confronting the oppression of her sex by taking a lover displays the author's radical views on religion, marriage, the search for self, and the struggle for women. Original.
  • A Love Story

    Jon Ripslinger

    eBook (Evernight Teen, March 11, 2020)
    His name’s Michael Panther. He’s seventeen, and a legit high school football star with mega college dreams. But his life’s crumbling. His dad’s dying of cancer. He’s promised to make something of himself and not cause his mom any trouble.Then he meets Jodi Jackson.She’s blonde, feisty, unpredictable, and super hot. He ends up hopelessly in love, and all his college football ambitions and family promises come in jeopardy when she ends up pregnant. He suspects Jodi’s been with her former boyfriend, but she swears the baby’s his. They neglected safe sex—twice. DNA testing will reveal who’s the father of her baby, but Michael alone must decide which is more important: His commitment to college and football or his responsibilities to the girl he loves and her child—even if her child isn’t his. But the baby’s got to be his, right?
  • An African Love Story: Love Life And Elephants

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Paperback (Penguin UK, March 26, 2013)
    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.
  • RAFU: An African Story

    Verena Prym, Paulina Böger

    eBook (meoverlag, April 28, 2020)
    "Rafu" is the current winner of the Silvermedal in the Purple Dragon Fly Book award 2020 in the category Picture Books 6 & Older and received Honorable Mention in the category Best Illustrations.A long time ago, under the deep orange African sky, giraffes and crocodiles lived peacefully together. Rafu and his giraffe friends can only dream about those harmonious times as the greedy crocodile Gutsor spreads fear and terror. Close to losing all hope of ever living peacefully again, an unexpected encounter changes everything…"Rafu" is set in the bushland of Africa, the sunny continent of wild animals and the cradle of humankind. Thousands of years ago the first bushmen captured their stories in cave drawings, some of which can still be admired today in museums and nature. The story about Rafu, the extraordinary giraffe, is based upon these magical drawings. Rafu manages to reveal an important secret about one of them and thus becomes an ambassador for peace. The book is recommended for children from the age of six."Rafu" connects an old African legend with a modern story about friendship, belief in higher powers and the deep wish for a peaceful life. The book tells the story of an extraordinary giraffe, who, thanks to his friendship with a little crocodile, reveals an important secret about a cave and thus paves the way for the long-desired peace between crocodiles and giraffes.
  • An April Love Story

    Caroline B. Cooney

    (Scholastic Book Services, June 6, 1981)
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  • A Love Story

    Jon Ripslinger

    Paperback (A Love Story, March 24, 2020)
    His name’s Michael Panther. He’s seventeen, and a legit high school football star with mega college dreams. But his life’s crumbling. His dad’s dying of cancer. He’s promised to make something of himself and not cause his mom any trouble.Then he meets Jodi Jackson.She’s blonde, feisty, unpredictable, and super hot. He ends up hopelessly in love, and all his college football ambitions and family promises come in jeopardy when she ends up pregnant. He suspects Jodi’s been with her former boyfriend, but she swears the baby’s his. They neglected safe sex—twice. DNA testing will reveal who’s the father of her baby, but Michael alone must decide which is more important: His commitment to college and football or his responsibilities to the girl he loves and her child—even if her child isn’t his. But the baby’s got to be his, right?
  • African Love Story,An: Love Life And Elephants

    Daphne Sheldrick

    Hardcover (Viking, May 1, 2012)
    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.