The elephant whisperer : my life with the herd in the African wild / Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Lawrence, author.

Spence, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthony, Lawrence--Homes and haunts.

Anthony, Lawrence.

African elephant--Conservation--South Africa--Zululand.

African elephant.

Wildlife refuges--South Africa--Zululand.

Wildlife refuges.

Wildlife conservationists--South Africa--Zululand.

Wildlife conservationists.

Homes.

South Africa--Zululand.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Summary:

It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed a new home. In order to save their lives, Lawrence took them in, and in the years that followed found that they had a lot to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. He tells of hair-raising fights with poachers, of elephants as surprise dinner guests, of raising a baby elephant in his home, and other stories.--From publisher description.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Kerry Bryan.

ISBN:

9780312565787

031256578X

9781250007810

125000781X

OCLC:

317928636