Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationist (1951–2014) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was a British travel writer and conservationist, as well as the brother of Queen Camilla.[1][2][3] Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centered on the survival of elephants. His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Travel Writer of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 1992. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002.[4]
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Born | Mark Roland Shand (1951-06-28)28 June 1951 London, England |
Died | 23 April 2014(2014-04-23) (aged 62) New York City, U.S. |
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Children | Ayesha Lalitha Shand |
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