Dedication
Dedication It was while looking down into the clarity of a nameless waterway in the Okavango Delta that ourselves and a friend came to talking about fish. He told us then that no great white shark had ever successfully been kept in captivity. Their demise was due not to disease or lack of food or the neglect of their custodians, but a great withering of spirit. For all its formidable bearing, defiant disposition and fierce and singular nature, when a great white shark is removed from the freedom of the open sea it is deprived of an ingredient so vital to its being that there occurs within it a spiritual death which the flesh is helpless but to follow. Despite all efforts, there has never been an exception. We came across an elephant once that had been spared during a cull; it had chains on its legs. It knew sunshine and rain, green trees, mud holes and the company of other elephants, and yet it was but a shadow of an elephant. It was possessed of a great weariness and its g
