num_pages: 392
description: 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.]
language: English
title: Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness
publisher: Allen & Unwin