The Elephant Whisperer
My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
by Lawrence Anthony
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Wildlife and Nonfiction.
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa, his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival notorious escape artists, they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. He agreed, but before arrangements...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Wildlife and Nonfiction.
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Shekhar Kapur
“@ravikarkara @JaneGoodallInst @khushsundar @ImRo45 @TheVikasKhanna @Prafull_mbachai @Pink @drtaranarula That’s beautiful. There’s a book called Elephant Whisperer you should read. A man in Africa who truly understood Elephants .. and when he died, Elephants from hundreds of miles came to mourn”
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