He learned to communicate with them and understand their behavior, and he discovered that they had complex emotions and personalities just like humans. Over time, Anthony began to develop a deep bond with the elephants. For weeks, Anthony and his team struggled to gain the trust of the elephants and help them heal from their trauma. When the elephants arrived, they were deeply traumatized by the loss of their matriarch, and they refused to eat or drink. A herd of traumatized elephants was being brought to his reserve, and if he didn’t take them in, they would be killed.Īnthony had never worked with elephants before, but he knew he couldn’t let them die. In 1999, Anthony received a phone call that would change his life forever. The book tells the story of Lawrence Anthony, a conservationist who founded multiple wildlife reserves in South Africa. At its heart, it is a story about the incredible bond that can form between humans and elephants, and how that bond can be both beautiful and tragic.

Read it you won’t be sorry.The story of “The Elephant Whisperer Book” is one of the most powerful and emotional tales of human-animal relationships ever written. Its an action packed edge of your seat adventure and a chance to take a peek into a world we understand very little about instinctively a world of greatly intelligent and emotionally deep creatures who have a whole language and system of their own. The book is not a fluffy feel good story. I’d read it again in a heartbeat, although my heart drops with hurried dread during the chapters in which staff are caught harrassing the elephants, poachers are found on the reserve, or cattle men decide to try to take his dream from him once and for all. It is a unique and exciting aufitory opportunity to live this wonderful experience through great story telling. You get to know the personality of each elephant. The voice of the narrator is very pleasant and you really get a sense of being there on the scene with them.

There is something honest and raw about this book and it is the type that will keep you up into the night listening on to see what happens in the next chapter. It is a beautiful story full of heart, danger, and earnest struggle told by someone who has spent a lifetime loving something wild and trying with every fiber of their being to preserve that wildness as nature intended.

The elephant whisperer book