Love, Life, and Elephants
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Nyeri
Ol Kalou attack
poaching
Ruth’s death
and David Sheldrick
Tsavo National Park
Woodley, Jill
Angela’s birth
Bill’s death
birth
and Bunty
and David
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
David’s death
and Dika
domestic skills
and Edo
Emily’s birth
and Fatuma
Flame Trees of Thika, The
in France
at Government Primary School
and Higglety
and JF
Kaluku Farm
leaves for France
lions
marriage to Alan
move to South Africa
in Nairobi
Ndiandaza camp
and Ol Jori
and Olmeg
perfumes
Peter’s wedding
and David Read
recruiting safari
and Ruth Woodley
safari
and Sam
secretarial college
tree climbing
Tsavo National Park
and Wiffle
Zoe’s birth
Woodley, Laura
Woodley, Ruth
Worthingham, Mr
Wren, Alistair
Wren, Jim
Wren, Sheila
and Arthur Brindley
childhood
Daphne lives with
Daphne’s marriage to Bill
David’s death
Grandpa Webb’s death
Mara
marriage
Selengai
spray race
at YWCA
Wren, Valerie
Wyeth Laboratories
Yatta Plateau
zebras
1. Sheila, me on Mother’s lap and Peter.
2. Cedar Park – our Gilgil home.
3. Betty and me at Malindi.
4. Bill and me at our reception at Cedar Park after our wedding.
5. With Jill, aged six months.
6. Bill, Jill and Fatuma.
7. Bill on a foot patrol.
8. Carving out the roads by hand in the 1940s and 1950s.
9. David in the Second World War.
10. Bill, David and me in the flooded Voi River.
11. David in the ivory room.
12. Tiva River anti-poaching patrol, 1958.
13. David, a friend, Jill and me camp at Ndiandaza, 1957.
14. Jill with recovered trophies, 1958.
15. Samson, Fatuma, Higglety (in foreground), me and a friend, with Jill sitting on the boat, 1961.
16. Jill and Huppety, 1963.
17. David with Old Spice.
18. Myself and David with newborn Angela, 1963.
19. Four generations – family group with Granny Chart in the middle, 1963.
20. Kitani ya Ndundu campsite on the Athi River.
21. Angela in her safari chair.
22. David with orphans Eleanor and Rufus.
23. Hugging Wiffle, 1968.
24. Rains in Tsavo, always a most welcome sight.
25. On the Tiva with my parents, Angela and Peter.
26. David with Angela on Rufus.
27. Tsavo’s big elephant herds, 1970.
28. Tsavo, big bull elephant.
29. Angela, me, Eleanor and keeper, 1968.
30. Myself and Angela at feeding time, with Stub and Lollipa.
31. The ostriches and rangers, 1976.
32. Angela feeding Stub, 1968.
33. Myself and Angela with Bias, our orphaned duiker.
34. Our house at Voi.
35. Angela and me with Lollipa and Stroppy.
36. Jill, aged twelve.
37. Evening walk to the river with the orphans.
38. The translocation of Grévy’s zebra to Tsavo East.
39. David, my soulmate.
40. The rangers return with an arrested poacher and recovered rhino horn and ivory.
41. David helped by rangers and keepers at the rescue of Sobo.
42. Punda, the rascal, persecuting Sobo, with Raru looking on.
43. Bukanesi, Raru, Eleanor and Sobo.
44. Stroppy with Raru.
45. Stroppy and Punda, inseparable friends.
46. Angela, me and David with the orphaned elephants, 1973.
47. At midday Bunty gives birth to Bouncer with me by her side.
48. Jill, me, Bunty and David in our front garden.
49. Bunty in the garden with her sons.
50. Bunty, vulturine guinea fowl and me in the garden.
51. Pop in the Land Rover, crossing the river at Lugard’s Falls causeway.
52. David helps rescue an elephant stuck in a drying mud wallow.
53. Jill with her father, Bill, on her wedding day.
54. Mixing the milk for Aisha.
55. Playing with Aisha on a sand pile.
56. With Aisha.
57. Aisha having her mud bath.
58. With Eleanor in the 1980s.
59. Myself with Boobalub, one of our orphaned eland.
60. Olmeg was rescued from Maralal on 4 March 1987, estimated one month old, sunburnt and emaciated.
61. Olmeg, two years later.
62. With the orphan elephants, Voi, 1990s.
63. Eleanor with the Tsavo orphans.
64. Ithumba orphans in the mud.
65. Myself and David Read.
66. Angela’s wedding, 1996.
67. The Nairobi nursery, 2007.
68. Communities visit the orphan project.
69. Nursery, 2009.
70. Mishak, 2005.
71. Baby Mara just after being rescued.
72. Suguta with keeper Benson.
73. Myself and Wendi, 2011.
74. With my grandchildren. Back, Emily, me and Zoe; front, Roan and Taru.
75. I am made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
76. Jill, 2009.
77. Angela with Makena as a nursery baby.
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Originally published in 2012 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain, as An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
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Sheldrick, Daphne Jenkins, 1934–
Love, life, and elephants: an African love story / Dame Daphne Sheldrick.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
“Originally published in 2012 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain, as An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants.”
Includes Index.
ISBN: 978-1-4299-4271-3
1. Sheldrick, Daphne Jenkins, 1934– 2. Women conservationists—Kenya—Tsavo National Park—Biography. 3. Wildlife conservationists—Kenya—Tsavo National Park—Biography. 4. Elephants—Conservation—Kenya—Tsavo National Park. I. Title.
SD411.52.S44 A3 2012
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