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Elephant dawn : the inspirational story of thirteen years living with elephants in the African wilderness / Sharon Pincott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pincott, Sharon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pincott, Sharon.
- Elephants--Zimbabwe--Anecdotes.
- Elephants.
- Elephants--Conservation--Zimbabwe.
- Human-animal relationships--Zimbabwe.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
- Summary:
- Powerful and moving, this is the truly unforgettable story of one woman's remarkable and life-changing association with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe, a celebrated clan of wild, free-roaming giants. It comes at a time when elephants all around Africa face the very real threat of being poached to extinction for their ivory.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Praise
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Prologue
- Plain Crazy
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Is that a Duck or a Frog?
- Elephant Rumbles
- Cutting the Wire
- Rhino Scars
- Selling Up
- No Looking Back
- V for Victory
- Souls that Suffer
- In the Bush
- Loopy
- Honorary Elephant
- A Million Miles from my Childhood
- Giving Something Back
- Christmas in the Mist
- Into Another World
- Carrying On
- Skidding Sideways
- Nothing Bad Lasts Forever
- The Elephants Will Speak to You
- Will the Eagles Look Out for Me?
- Enough to Pee Your Pants
- How Long is the Fuel Queue?
- On Friendly Land
- Waiting for the Rains
- The Letter
- An Eagle in the Wind
- Just Can't Do It
- Trying to Catch Dreams
- Disorderly Conduct
- Masakhe
- Billions and Trillions
- Pizza and Ice-Cream
- Finding Adwina
- Mugabe's Cavalcade
- Grantham
- Starting Anew
- Meeting Cecil
- An Elephant Kiss
- Visitors
- Becoming Britney Spears
- Lady
- Splitting Apart
- Finding Tim Tams
- Bulldog with a Bone
- The Log with Teeth
- A Fool's Errand
- The Litmus Test
- Godspeed
- Another Path
- Pic section
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-952534-08-9
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