The elephant whisperer
Subtitle: my life with the herd in the African wild
By: Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence.
Contributors: Spence, Graham.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780312565787
Subjects: Anthony, Lawrence -- Homes and haunts; African elephant -- Conservation -- South Africa -- Zululand; Wildlife refuges -- South Africa -- Zululand; Wildlife conservationists -- South Africa -- Zululand
Description: It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed a new home. In order to save their lives, Lawrence took them in, and in the years that followed found that they had a lot to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. He tells of hair-raising fights with poachers, of elephants as surprise dinner guests, of raising a baby elephant in his home, and other stories.--From publisher description.