| Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa Cloth Bound Edition Contributor(s): Blumenthal, Michael (Author), Miljo, Rita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0912887389 ISBN-13: 9780912887388 Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists - Nature | Endangered Species - Nature | Animals - Primates |
| LCCN: 2015937176 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. Nature. Travel. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blumenthal, Michael: - Michael 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 Virginia University College of Law. In his free time, he reads and thinks about primates of all sorts. |