A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar

A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar is rich in animal anecdotes that will make you laugh and cry.
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Title: A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar
Author: Pat Cavendish O’Neill
Publisher: Jonathan Ball
Cape Town / Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012
ISBN 9781868424856 / ISBN 978-1-86842-485-6
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 253 pages, many bw and colour photos

Description: A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar

From the international best-selling author of A Lion in the Bedroom, Pat Cavendish O’Neill, comes another glimpse into her extravagant and adventurous life. In 1968, Pat Cavendish O’Neill reluctantly left her magical years in Kenya behind to join her mother in Somerset West, South Africa. She left behind a life she loved and, even more heart-breaking, her beloved lioness Tana. However, arriving at her new home on Broadlands Farm, Pat soon found a different channel for her extraordinary gift with animals when she revealed a sharp eye for identifying winning race horses, turning Broadlands into a renowned stud farm. Pat’s fierce of love of animals has resulted in her opening heart and home to a variety of creatures, from monkeys to baboons, birds, sheep, pigs and horses, to a pack of seventeen dogs and a goat all living underfoot. But a rescued chimp named Kalu found his way deepest into her heart. For over 40 years Pat and Kalu have lived at Broadlands together and the one without the other is a picture incomplete. Today, at the age of 87, Pat leads a very different life from the enormous privilege and wealth into which she was born, yet she still remains true to her first love of animals.