Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa - Softcover

Blumenthal, Michael; Miljo, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912887346 ISBN 13: 9780912887340

Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0912887346
• ISBN 13: 9780912887340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174