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Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness

Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness

In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early encounters with Africa. For thirteen years - the worst in Zimbabwe's volatile history - this intrepid Australian woman lived in the Hwange bush fighting for the lives of these elephants, forming an extraordinary and life-changing bond with them.

Now remote from Robert Mugabe's rule, Sharon writes without restraint sequentially through the years, taking us on a truly unforgettable ride of hope and heartbreak, profound love and loss, adversity and new beginnings. This is the haunting, all-encompassing story we've been waiting for.

Powerfully moving, sometimes disturbing and often very funny, Elephant Dawn is a celebration of love, courage and honour amongst our greatest land mammals. With resilience beyond measure, Sharon earns the supreme right to call them family.

[The book includes 32 pages of colour photographs.]
Country USA
Brand Allen & Unwin
Manufacturer Allen & Unwin
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781760290337
ReleaseDate 2016-11-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781760290337

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