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  • An African Love Story

  • Love, Life and Elephants
  • By: Daphne Sheldrick
  • Narrated by: Virginia McKenna
  • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (128 ratings)
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An African Love Story

By: Daphne Sheldrick
Narrated by: Virginia McKenna
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Summary

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of An African Love Story, Daphne Sheldrick's touching memoir about romance, life and elephants from Africa's greatest living conservationist. Read by Virginia McKenna, the star of Born Free and the Founder Trustee of the Born Free Foundation. An African Love Story is the incredible memoir of the life of Africa's greatest living conservationist. It tells two stories.

The first is the Tsavo years, and the extraordinary love story which blossomed when the young Daphne, moved to Tsavo with her first husband and fell head over heels with both the park and its famous warden, David Sheldrick. The second is the love story of how Daphne and David, who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans, at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive.

This recording contains a bonus track featuring an interview with Virginia McKenna in which she talks about her own conservation work and her friendship with Daphne Sheldrick.

©2012 Daphne Sheldrick (P)2012 Penguin Audio

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Lovely uplifting book

This is a lovely book with a real feel-good story. When listening I felt I was really able to visualise being in Kenya amongst the many animals described in the book. Even if you are not an animal lover I think you would enjoy this book. The relationships described both amongst the animals and between the animals and the humans are heart warming. Perhaps at times the descriptions were a little lengthy but generally I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

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Heart warming, inspirational and beautifully read

I feel as though I have been on a real life journey. Virginia reads the story as if her own. I felt so connected to Daphne throughout the book and to the animals she loved. Such as inspiring life and I am so grateful she chose to write about it, to share with us all.

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The best read ever! So heart warming

Absolutely beautiful. Read beautifully too. Very touching book I cried a few times and also very happy to learn such wonderful humans exist. Elephants are my favourite animals and rhino's. So I cannot wait to raise money for her amazing charity and visit the sanctuary x

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Learning to listen to Elephants through compassionate men and woman.

This books charm is definitely the reader, who captivated for me, the real life emotions of this life story. It was hard to put it down as each chapter left me in suspense to listen to yet another chapter, well into the night on some occasions. My sincere thanks to Daphne for her courage, following her second husbands death, and to Joy who made Daphine's life come alive for me.

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beautiful and inspirational story

I loved this story - her strength and determination to help the plight of the elephants is truly extraordinary! Thank you for helping the world know how special these amazing animals are and how important it is to protect them and conserve their habitat.

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Beautifully narrated tale of an interesting life

Cannot recommend this highly enough. Having at first thought I might find it too distressing, I soon found that the style of writing, and narration, manage to tell the story of this lady's extraordinary life and works with compassion but without undue sentimentality. You go through sadness, relief, anger and wonder and admittedly the occasional tear, but ultimately it is an uplifting story in many ways and well worth a listen.

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Dedication

A heartstrings story of love, loss both personal and.professional. Greatly admire the dedication of the Sheldrake family in their work for animal welfare and conservation thank you.

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Should be required reading

Loved it. Great follow up to Elephant in my Kitchen, which is read just before this one.

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Wonder true account

This book is so moving and the story of a remarkable woman who did a remarkable work. I now support her foundation in the work they do.

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Beautiful

Beautiful story, I loved this, only sometimes the narrator was rather over dramatic which was a bit annoying

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