love life and elephants by daphne sheldrick

His family - my great-grandmother was Will's sister - had left rural Scotland for Africa in the mid 1820s. In the early 1900s my Great-Uncle Will was living a relatively prosperous life in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It was quite by chance that my ancestors came to settle in Kenya. 'What we are is God's gift to us what we become is our gift to God.'

LOVE, LIFE, AND ELEPHANTS (Chapter One)1 Settlers

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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.Įncompassing 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. 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.īut this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. 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. Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants.

Love life and elephants by daphne sheldrick