Silent Footsteps

Silent Footsteps is a book of one choice, to live or die. The decision is not always a conscious one, but one of destiny. It follows the never-ending battle of parent vs. child, age vs. youth, experience vs. inexperience, all of which continue from beyond the shroud of death. What is it like to die? And is it fair that 'forever' results from one bad decision? Only one person can answer these questions and that person is dead. Silent Footsteps looks at death from the deceased's point of view; where education never stops, and the lessons learned while in the flesh teach the dead.

When an elephant saved Sally Henderson's life in Botswana, it was to change her irrevocably. A passion to conserve this majestic species was ignited, and in 1990 she left Australia to join an elephant research project in the wilds of Zimbabwe. What follows is a remarkable journey into the world of Africa's elephants, and a deeply personal memoir of one woman's awakening and the choices she makes to follow her calling. Sally paints a rare and unforgettable portrait of a Herd and its matriarchs, and the perils they face in an unforgiving landscape further torn apart by civil strife. But it is the daily pleasures of being in their mighty presence that gives her story its countless wonders. Beautifully written, Silent Footsteps is a love letter to the spirit of Africa and a jubilant portrayal of the lives of elephants.

They say that to really know a person you need to understand their past. If that is true, then Mary Beker did not know her husband at all.