by Cindy | Dec 9, 2009 | Animals, Nonfiction
Rating: The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, by Lawrence Anthony. Thomas Dunne Books (2009), 368 pages. Anthony tells the story here of his life on a game reserve in South Africa. He makes a point in the prologue of letting...
by Cindy | Nov 15, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder. Random House (2009), 277 pages. Kidder tells the story in Strength in What Remains of Deo, a young man from Burundi who survives the Hutu/Tutsi massacres in 1994 and arrives in New York City with only...