Kate’s 2¢: “An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival” by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen

Kate’s 2¢: “An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival” by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen

“An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival” by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I enjoyed Lawrence Anthony’s “The Herd Whisperer”, so when the NLS sent “An Elephant In My Kitchen” written  by his wife after his death, I started listening to Roshina Ratnam read  the rest of the story.

   There were a variety of references to the events in “The Herd Whisperer”, but, still plenty of things happened to keep this story moving along. Some of the things were horrendous and sickening, yet other things were heart warming and hopeful.

From the WEB:

Malby-Anthony was born in the South of France, brought up in Paris and has lived in South Africa since 1987. She founded the Thula Thula game reserve in 1998 with her late husband, the renowned conservationist and bestselling author Lawrence Anthony.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival DB97344

Malby-Anthony, Françoise; Willemsen, Katja. Reading time: 8 hours, 27 minutes.

Read by Roshina Ratnam.

Animals and Wildlife

Nature and the Environment

Widow of the author of The Elephant Whisperer (DB 85906) shares what her life was like running the Thula Thula game reserve after his death. Discusses combating poachers, issues with employees, the elephant herd’s matriarch who didn’t like her, and the arrival of a lost baby elephant. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anthony was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the 1920s, his grandfather, who was a miner in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England had migrated to the area to work in the gold mines. His father, who ran an insurance business, went about establishing new offices across Southern Africa; Anthony was raised in rural Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe), Zambia, and Malawi, before settling in Zululand, South Africa.[4]

Following his father, Anthony also started his career in the insurance sector, though subsequently started working the real estate development business. Meanwhile, he started working with Zulu tribespeople, by mid-1990s, his passion for the African Bush inspired him to switch careers, when he bought the Thula Thula game reserve, spread over 5,000-acre in KwaZulu-Natal starting his career as a conservationist.[4] A turning point in career came when he was called by a conservation group to rescue a group of nine elephants who had escaped their enclosure and were wreaking havoc across Northern Mpumalanga,[5] and were about to be shot. He tried to communicate with the matriarch of the herd through the tone of his voice and body language, eventually rescued them and brought to the reserve, and in time came to be known as “Elephant-whisperer”.[1][4]

In the following years, he established a conservation group, The Earth Organization in 2003, and his efforts lead to the establishment of two new reserves, the Royal Zulu Biosphere in Zululand and the Mayibuye Game Reserve in Kwa Ximba, aimed at providing local tribe people income through wildlife tourism.[4]

Anthony had a reputation for bold conservation initiatives, including the rescue of the Baghdad Zoo at the height of the US-led Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, and negotiations with the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army rebel army in Southern Sudan, to raise awareness of the environment and protect endangered species, including the last of the Northern White Rhinoceros.

Anthony died of a heart attack at the age of 61 before his planned March 2012 conservation gala dinner in Durban to raise international awareness for the rhino-poaching crisis and to launch his new book, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World’s Greatest Creatures.[2] Following his death, there were reports that some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.[3]

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GRAHAM SPENCE is a journalist and editor. Originally from South Africa, he lives in England. Together he and Lawrence Anthony wrote Babylon’s Ark: the Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The elephant whisperer: my life with the herd in the African wild DB85906

Anthony, Lawrence; Spence, Graham. Reading time: 13 hours, 9 minutes.

Read by Jon Huffman. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Animals and Wildlife

Nature and the Environment

“An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival” by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I enjoyed Lawrence Anthony’s “The Herd Whisperer”, so when the NLS sent “An Elephant In My Kitchen” written  by his wife after his death, I started listening to Roshina Ratnam read  the rest of the story.

   There were a variety of references to the events in “The Herd Whisperer”, but, still plenty of things happened to keep this story moving along. Some of the things were horrendous and sickening, yet other things were heart warming and hopeful.

From the WEB:

Malby-Anthony was born in the South of France, brought up in Paris and has lived in South Africa since 1987. She founded the Thula Thula game reserve in 1998 with her late husband, the renowned conservationist and bestselling author Lawrence Anthony.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival DB97344

Malby-Anthony, Françoise; Willemsen, Katja. Reading time: 8 hours, 27 minutes.

Read by Roshina Ratnam.

Animals and Wildlife

Nature and the Environment

Widow of the author of The Elephant Whisperer (DB 85906) shares what her life was like running the Thula Thula game reserve after his death. Discusses combating poachers, issues with employees, the elephant herd’s matriarch who didn’t like her, and the arrival of a lost baby elephant. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anthony was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the 1920s, his grandfather, who was a miner in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England had migrated to the area to work in the gold mines. His father, who ran an insurance business, went about establishing new offices across Southern Africa; Anthony was raised in rural Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe), Zambia, and Malawi, before settling in Zululand, South Africa.[4]

Following his father, Anthony also started his career in the insurance sector, though subsequently started working the real estate development business. Meanwhile, he started working with Zulu tribespeople, by mid-1990s, his passion for the African Bush inspired him to switch careers, when he bought the Thula Thula game reserve, spread over 5,000-acre in KwaZulu-Natal starting his career as a conservationist.[4] A turning point in career came when he was called by a conservation group to rescue a group of nine elephants who had escaped their enclosure and were wreaking havoc across Northern Mpumalanga,[5] and were about to be shot. He tried to communicate with the matriarch of the herd through the tone of his voice and body language, eventually rescued them and brought to the reserve, and in time came to be known as “Elephant-whisperer”.[1][4]

In the following years, he established a conservation group, The Earth Organization in 2003, and his efforts lead to the establishment of two new reserves, the Royal Zulu Biosphere in Zululand and the Mayibuye Game Reserve in Kwa Ximba, aimed at providing local tribe people income through wildlife tourism.[4]

Anthony had a reputation for bold conservation initiatives, including the rescue of the Baghdad Zoo at the height of the US-led Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, and negotiations with the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army rebel army in Southern Sudan, to raise awareness of the environment and protect endangered species, including the last of the Northern White Rhinoceros.

Anthony died of a heart attack at the age of 61 before his planned March 2012 conservation gala dinner in Durban to raise international awareness for the rhino-poaching crisis and to launch his new book, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World’s Greatest Creatures.[2] Following his death, there were reports that some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.[3]

www.grahamspence.comActions for this site

GRAHAM SPENCE is a journalist and editor. Originally from South Africa, he lives in England. Together he and Lawrence Anthony wrote Babylon’s Ark: the Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The elephant whisperer: my life with the herd in the African wild DB85906

Anthony, Lawrence; Spence, Graham. Reading time: 13 hours, 9 minutes.

Read by Jon Huffman. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Animals and Wildlife

Nature and the Environment

Conservationist relates his experiences caring for a rogue herd of elephants on his South African game reserve. Describes his misgivings in accepting them, challenges faced with both the herd and local communities, lessons learned from individual elephants, and the joys and sorrows he encountered. 2009.