Hence he grew up in a time when the political power of the white-settler communities of Africa were being displaced by black-majority governments. Lawrence Anthony was born in 1950s south Africa, and has lived in Rhodesia, Malawi, and and Zambia before settling in South Africa. Instead, I found myself absorbed in Lawrence Anthony’s exciting story of setting up one of the largest private eco-reserves in Africa and integrating a herd of unruly elephants into his demesne. My expectations were low I had expected a somewhat wishy-washy exploration of the emotional relationship between a African naturalist and a group of elephants. However, one of the advantages of participating in a book club is that one inevitably reads books that would be beyond the gamut of one’s perceived literary interests. In fact I cannot remember the last time I got a book from the “Animals/Pets” section of any bookstore. The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony is not the sort of book I would normally pick up.
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