ISBN: 9780912887388 - because they needed me: rita miljo and the orphaned baboons of south africa (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 188 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure-filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night.'A lot of people have asked me whether they could write 'my book,' Rita wrote to Michael shortly thereafter, 'and I said no, because I was envisaging a story both sad and happy, but certainly mixed with a lot of humor. But if you asked me, I would not say no.' With that, for the only time in her life, Rita entrusted another human being with thirty years' worth of her journals, and a rare and unusual collaboration was born. Because They Needed Me is that story, a chronicle of primate conservation and the intrepid and courageous woman who devoted her life to it. It is like no other book of its kind.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMichael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1974 and is currently Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at The West Virgi.