Elephant Dawn

The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness

By: Sharon Pincott

Narrated by: Cat Gould

In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded, and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early encounters with Africa. For 13 years - the worst in Zimbabwe's volatile history - this intrepid Australian woman lived in the Hwange bush fighting for the lives of these elephants, forming an extraordinary and life-changing bond with them.

Now remote from Robert Mugabe's rule, Sharon writes without restraint sequentially through the years, taking us on a truly unforgettable ride of hope and heartbreak, profound love and loss, adversity and new beginnings. This is the haunting, all-encompassing story we've been waiting for.

Powerfully moving, sometimes disturbing, and often very funny, Elephant Dawn is a celebration of love, courage, and honor amongst our greatest land mammals. With resilience beyond measure, Sharon earns the supreme right to call them family.

©2016 Sharon Pincott (P)2019 Tantor

One plucky Australian

You have to admire a woman willing to put her life on the line in Robert Mugabe’s dystopian Zimbabwe for 13 years, and her heroic effort to save elephants, and to alert the rest of the world of the slaughter of these magnificent animals to feed the Asian desire for ivory in places like China. It’s an excellent book.

Magical

Her story is incredible. Absolutely worth a listen. My heart goes out to all the elephants.

it was interesting tohear a first hand account of how much the government of Zimbabwe was interfering with conservation efforts

the narrator mispronounced all the place names which as they cropped up numerous times was very annoying

More like depressing elephant dusk...

I appreciate hearing the painful truth about the elephants in Zimbabwe, but I learned very little about elephants, other than how many ways humans currently harm them. This is more autobiography about this woman and critique of the corrupt & ignorant government & citizens of Zimbabwe.

Excellent yet heart wrenching

great narrator and such a great adventure of saving elephants despite a terrible government. I'm going to Africa in the summer and this has gotten me excited for my trip.