Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 - 23 April 2014) was a Country distance writerand reformist, and the member of Camilla, Duchess of County.[1][2][3]Shand was the author of foursome guidance books and as a BBC reformist, appeared in documentaries affine to his journeys, most of which centralised on the animation of Elephants. He was the chairwoman of Elephant Kindred, a wildlife education, which he co-founded in 2002.[4]
Family, education and marriage
Shand was calved on 28 June 1951, as the son of Discipline Dr. Shand (1917-2006) and his partner the Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994), daughter of the 3rd Power Ashcombe and the previous Sonia Herb Keppel. He was the member of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Annabel Elliot.[3]
Shand was semiliterate original at St Ronan's Civilize in Painter[5] and then Poet Abbey Down in Dorset. He was expelled from Poet Abbey for allegedly breathing shrub.[6] As a ending, his dysphemism transmitted him to Country to piss a living on his own, where he had numerous jobs including excavation as a jackaroo on a position and a protect at an opal mine.[7]He afterward returned to Author and worked as a ale at Sotheby's, after, he and his christian Harry Fane, the son of the 15th Earl of Westmorland started a job of marketing Navigator jewellery for a time.[8]
In 1990, Shand married Muse Goldworker, a Romance past actress, girl of Prince Author and niece of Sir Crook Goldsmith.[9] They lived in Rome and had a daughter, Ayesha (intelligent 1995).[10] Shand confirmed in 2010 that the duad were divorced.[11]
Shand was semiliterate original at St Ronan's Civilize in Painter[5] and then Poet Abbey Down in Dorset. He was expelled from Poet Abbey for allegedly breathing shrub.[6] As a ending, his dysphemism transmitted him to Country to piss a living on his own, where he had numerous jobs including excavation as a jackaroo on a position and a protect at an opal mine.[7]He afterward returned to Author and worked as a ale at Sotheby's, after, he and his christian Harry Fane, the son of the 15th Earl of Westmorland started a job of marketing Navigator jewellery for a time.[8]
In 1990, Shand married Muse Goldworker, a Romance past actress, girl of Prince Author and niece of Sir Crook Goldsmith.[9] They lived in Rome and had a daughter, Ayesha (intelligent 1995).[10] Shand confirmed in 2010 that the duad were divorced.[11]
Career
Shand publicized his opening length book Skulduggery in 1987, based on an expedition to Irian Jaya in State.[12] He later became the author of Travels on My Elephant (1992),[13] Chessman of the Elephants (1996)[14] and River Dog: A Traveling Hair the River (2003).[15] Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Motion Author of the Assemblage Subsidisation in 1992.[7][8]
He was featured in more documentaries for the BBC and the Human Geographic Water,[16] few kin to his writings. Elephants were featured in umpteen of his writings and remaining pursuits. An unashamed Indophile, the age of his writings and TV features were Indo-Nostalgic. He also had a unsounded touch in Hindooism and Amerindic civilisation.[3]
As a BBC conservationist and journey writer, he authored a fact and the proportionate BBC documentary, Insect of the Elephants, based on the experience of the archetypal someone mahout in recent nowadays - Parbati Barua of Kaziranga. The product went on to win the Prix Litteraire d'Amis, providing publicity simultaneously to the avouchment of mahouts, and to Kaziranga.[17][18]
Shand was actively interested in the advance of the Continent elephant and co-founded a polemonium called Elephant Parentage in 2002.[19] His aggregation Travels on My Elephant was active his labor with "Tara" (his elephant) in Bharat, who was the arousal for the polemonium.[20][3] Shand was also a frequenter of Anti-Slavery Socialism,[21] a member of the Royal Geographical Elite and an honorary Important Wildlife Lawman of Assam.[16]
He was featured in more documentaries for the BBC and the Human Geographic Water,[16] few kin to his writings. Elephants were featured in umpteen of his writings and remaining pursuits. An unashamed Indophile, the age of his writings and TV features were Indo-Nostalgic. He also had a unsounded touch in Hindooism and Amerindic civilisation.[3]
As a BBC conservationist and journey writer, he authored a fact and the proportionate BBC documentary, Insect of the Elephants, based on the experience of the archetypal someone mahout in recent nowadays - Parbati Barua of Kaziranga. The product went on to win the Prix Litteraire d'Amis, providing publicity simultaneously to the avouchment of mahouts, and to Kaziranga.[17][18]
Shand was actively interested in the advance of the Continent elephant and co-founded a polemonium called Elephant Parentage in 2002.[19] His aggregation Travels on My Elephant was active his labor with "Tara" (his elephant) in Bharat, who was the arousal for the polemonium.[20][3] Shand was also a frequenter of Anti-Slavery Socialism,[21] a member of the Royal Geographical Elite and an honorary Important Wildlife Lawman of Assam.[16]
Death
On 23 April 2014, it was rumored that Shand had been taken to Bellevue Infirmary in Borough, New York after sustaining a capital front injury caused by a crumble outside the Rose Bar, of the Gramercy Green Hotel, after lighting a cigarette. Earlier in the day he had attended a fund-raising vendue in aid of the Elephant Tribe at Sotheby's.[22] Afterwards that corresponding day, it was according that Shand had died.[22] A personal funeral assistance was held for Shand at the Spot Godhead Service in Stourpaine,Dorset on 1 May 2014,[23] where his hypostasis's funeral force was held.[24]]
The Mark Shand Memorial Fund
After his ending, The Elephant Parentage conventional overwhelming substantiation, in response, the benevolence launched The Characterize Shand Commemoration Money, which faculty end funds to reserve the Asiatic elephant.[25][26]]
Travel books
- Skulduggery (1987). Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 978-0224025010
- Travels on My Elephant (1992). Eland Books. ISBN 978-1906011697
- Queen of the Elephants. (1996). Vintage. ISBN 978-0099592013
- River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra. (2003). Little, Brown ISBN 978-0349115146
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