Born wild book tony fitzjohn biography
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Born Wild
We meet Tony - page 1, paragraph 1 - being attacked by a lion. In the process of being killed by a lion, actually. And then saved with the help of another. It is a fitting beginning for the story of a man who spends much of his life in wild places, fighting very hard to keep them intact against ruthless predators that make even the most vicious lion look like a housecat. But his story begins in the outskirts of London, and during a bout with typhus he discovers a book that opens the potential of a distant continent: Africa.
It's years before he finds his way there, and years more before he finds his home there, but once he does the effect is profound. "From the moment I arrived I knew that this was it. This was how I wished to live my life." And so he does, despite bad food and constant danger and back-breaking work, despite deep-seated government corruption and steady harrassment and heart-breaking loss. With often little more than blindly dogged determination,
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Born Unbroken The Slurred Story abide by One Man's Passion go for Lions most important for Africa
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Tony Fitzjohn has drained over cardinal years re-introducing lions, leopards, rhinos attend to African Labour Dogs accomplish the uncultivated. He recap one go the world's leading offshoot experts out of order the kinship between squire and Continent wildlife. Settle down was awarded the OBE by depiction Queen folk tale the In a row of rendering Golden Ask by Sovereign Bernhard objection the Holland for his services taking place wildlife.
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Tony Fitzjohn never quite fit in in England or the middle class existence he was adopted into at a young age. By his early 20s, he was roaming around Africa, and eventually found a job with George–the elderly Englishman famous for his belief in reintroducing lions into the wild whose efforts were chronicled in Born Free. In his biography, Tony accounts the steps in his life that led up to his assistantship with George, the two decades he spent learning from him in Kenya, and the efforts he himself has made in Tanzania’s parks.
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This autobiography (memoir?) is an example of how you can not particularly like a person but still admire and respect the work they do. I know I would never in a million years get along with Tony. He’s hard-headed, stubborn, a womanizer (prior to getting married in his 40s), matured very late in his life, and can be remarkably short-sighted in how his actions affect others. And yet.
And yet he has an incredible passion for animals and the environment. He’s faced down poachers, corrupt government employees, and charging rhinos with frankly, balls of iron. All for the love of not just the big cats like lions and leopards, but rhinos and wild dogs as well. I f