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Learn moreThe 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.
Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. She has two daughters, both of whom have spent their lives helping her. In 2002 she received the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen, the first Knighthood to be awarded in Kenya since the country received Independence in 1963.
Virginia McKenna's leading film roles include such classics as THE CRUEL SEA and A TOWN LIKE ALICE for which she won a British Academy Award for Best Actress. She is however perhaps best remembered for her roles in BORN FREE (for which she won a Variety Club Best Actress Award), RING OF BRIGHT WATER and CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE. Virginia has written several books.The most recent is her memoir 'The Life in My Years'.She has also recorded numerous plays for radio as well as audiobooks, including 'The Butterfly Lion' and 'Why the Whales Came' by Michael Morpurgo. Virginia is founder Trustee of the Born Free Foundation - founded in 1984 - the animal welfare and conservation charity, whose CEO is her eldest son, Will Travers. She was awarded the OBE in 2004 for her contribution to the arts and animal welfare.
Daphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. She has two daughters, both of whom have spent their lives helping her. In 2002 she received the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen, the first Knighthood to be awarded in Kenya since the country received Independence in 1963.
Virginia McKenna's leading film roles include such classics as THE CRUEL SEA and A TOWN LIKE ALICE for which she won a British Academy Award for Best Actress. She is however perhaps best remembered for her roles in BORN FREE (for which she won a Variety Club Best Actress Award), RING OF BRIGHT WATER and CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE. Virginia has written several books.The most recent is her memoir 'The Life in My Years'.She has also recorded numerous plays for radio as well as audiobooks, including 'The Butterfly Lion' and 'Why the Whales Came' by Michael Morpurgo. Virginia is founder Trustee of the Born Free Foundation - founded in 1984 - the animal welfare and conservation charity, whose CEO is her eldest son, Will Travers. She was awarded the OBE in 2004 for her contribution to the arts and animal welfare.