Tippi of Africa: The Little Girl Who Talks to the Animals - Softcover

Robert, Sylvie; Degre, Alain

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9781868720835: Tippi of Africa: The Little Girl Who Talks to the Animals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868720837 ISBN 13: 9781868720835

Publisher: Struik Publishers, 1998

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The story of Alain Degre and Sylvie Robert, a couple who chose to relinquish their lives in France for the freedom of nature in Southern Africa. This is also the story of their daughter Tippi. Share their unique encounters with meerkats and the hidden mysteries of the cruel Kalahari; travel with them to the wilds of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Read about the beginnings of their daughter Tippi's life in the bush, dunes and swamps, and her endearing kinship with wild animals - particularly Abu, a five-ton elephant, whom she calls 'my brother'. The language of the wild is no secret for Tippi of Africa.

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Tippi: My Book of Africa, photography by Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre is an exquisite book of drop-dead photography that will literally have you exclaiming with mouth open, "I can't believe this is real!" In the narrative Tippi explains how it feels to grow up "wild" and how much she loves animals and Africa. She claims that she can communicate silently with each one. A white child, she was born in Namibia and grew up in Africa and is now 23 years old living in France. The photographs of her as a young child in Africa were taken by her parents who are French film-makers and still photographers and spent seven years in the Kalahari taking pictures of meerkats. The images in this book are UNBELIEVABLE as the little girl plays with and rides on various wild animals. She does explain that the animals she is with were either in a park or a protected area, but they are still wild. The photography is exquisite...You just MUST see this book to believe it.

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