Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa by Blumenthal, Michael
Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa by Blumenthal, Michael

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

In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went...
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Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa by Blumenthal, Michael

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

$407.88
Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa by Blumenthal, Michael

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

$407.88
Author: Michael Blumenthal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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. It is like no other book of its kind.



Author: Michael Blumenthal, Rita Miljo
Publisher: Aequitas Books
Published: 05/01/2016
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780912887388

About the Author
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 WVU College of Law. His collection of short stories, The Greatest Jewish- American Lover in Hungarian History, was published in 2014, and his eighth book of poems, NO HURRY: POEMS 2000-2012 in 2013 by Etruscan Press. He is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers. His novel WEINSTOCK AMONG THE DYING (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008), won Hadassah Magazine's Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction. His collection of essays from Central Europe, WHEN HISTORY ENTERS THE HOUSE, was published in 1998 by Pleasure Boat Studio. In his free time, he reads and thinks about primates of all sorts.
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