Beaten But Not Broken (None edition.)

Cape Town journalist-turned-researcher Margaret Jacobsohnswapped city life for a remote Ovahimba settlement on the edgeof Namibia's liberation war.

What she experienced shook her worldview and changed the way she thought about people and nature -and highlighted our modern deficiency in ecological intelligence.Drawn into the warmth and richness of rural community life,and revelling in vast Namibia's "gloriously unclad geology - acountry that wears its skeleton in the outside", Margaret becamea Namibian.

For the past 30 years she has been part of a teamthat pioneered an African way of doing wildlife conservation - anapproach that was regarded as lunatic in the '80s but which is todaymainstream and demonstrably successful.

This work has won someof the world's top environmental awards.Her story is both serious and funny - the conflicts and mishaps, thetriumphs and breakthroughs, and what it takes to break paradigmswhile working in remote, inaccessible places, including becominginvolved (reluctantly) in a Himba-owned, award-winning safaricompany.Passionate about community-based action, Margaret sees thechallenges of community conservation work differing only in scaleand content from the international challenges we face today -whether this be political corruption, plastic pollution of our oceans orthe growing gap between the super wealthy and the poor.

They allrequire for people to reach consensus, manage conflicts, be willingto change their attitudes and then translate plans and decisions intoaction.Life Is Like a Kudu Horn is a book that will make you reflect anddeliberate.