Speak to the Earth

ISBN: 0393335569

Author: De Watteville, Vivienne

Condition: New

Vivienne de Watteville first fell in love with Africa when she accompanied her father there on a specimen-collecting safari in 1923. Several years later, she returned alone to the Kenya/Tanganyika border, armed not with a gun but a camera. And for more than a year, including two months in a remote hut high on Mount Kenya, she pursued a very special goal -- "to win the friendship of the beasts."In Speak to the Earth, Vivienne de Watteville's brilliant descriptive and reflective powers bring to life her experiences, whether she is encountering a man-eating lion, escaping from a charging rhino, wrenching out her own tooth with a pair of carpenter's pliers, fighting a raging heather fire -- or listening to Beethoven on her wind-up gramophone as the fiery African sun goes down.