A dolphin called Jock : an injured dolphin, a lost young woman, a story of hope / Melody Horrill.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761067358; 1761067354Subject(s): Horrill, Melody | Horrill, Melody -- Mental health | Adult child abuse victims -- Australia -- Biography | Bottlenose dolphin -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide River | Dolphins -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide River | Wildlife conservation -- Australia | Human-animal relationships | River dolphins -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide River | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Psychic trauma -- Australia | Voluntarism -- Australia | Mental healing | Animals -- Wounds and injuries -- Australia | Abused children -- Australia -- Biography | Dolphins -- Australia | River dolphins -- Australia | Women journalists -- Australia -- Biography | Human-animal relationships -- AustraliaGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 333.9516092 | 599.538 | 070.444/092 Summary: "When Melody Horrill arrived as a student at the University of South Australia she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted exterior. She had experienced a childhood of emotional and physical trauma mainly at the hands of her violent father that was as damaging as it was brutal. One day Melody volunteered to help her university lecturer monitor pods of river dolphins that lived in the waters of Port Adelaide. There for the first time she encountered Jock, a solitary dolphin with a maimed fin, who lived apart from the highly social pods. Melody was to form a bond with Jock that gave her the key to freeing herself from the demons of her own past, and their extraordinary friendship was the start of a long-term mission to try to save the river dolphins." -- Back cover.
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"When Melody Horrill arrived as a student at the University of South Australia she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted exterior. She had experienced a childhood of emotional and physical trauma mainly at the hands of her violent father that was as damaging as it was brutal. One day Melody volunteered to help her university lecturer monitor pods of river dolphins that lived in the waters of Port Adelaide. There for the first time she encountered Jock, a solitary dolphin with a maimed fin, who lived apart from the highly social pods. Melody was to form a bond with Jock that gave her the key to freeing herself from the demons of her own past, and their extraordinary friendship was the start of a long-term mission to try to save the river dolphins." -- Back cover.
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