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.ĭaphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. It tells two stories - one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park and its famous warden, David Sheldrick. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist.Ī typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade.Īn African Love Story is the incredible memoir of her life.
Sheldrick died from breast cancer on Apat the age of 83.Also available on eBook for £5.99. In 2006, she was given the title of dame commander by Queen Elizabeth II. The work done by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was the focus of the British series Elephant Diaries and the documentary Born to Be Wild. She wrote several books including The Orphans of Tsavo, An Elephant Called Eleanor, and Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story.
After his death, she founded the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. She lived at the Tsavo East National Park in Kenya with her husband.
She became a wildlife conservationist and was an important voice in the movement to save the declining elephant population and raise awareness about poaching. "Originally published in 2012 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin books, Great Britain, as An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants."ĭaphne Sheldrick was born Daphne Jenkins on Jin Kenya, which was still a British colony.
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