TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horrill,Melody
TI  - A dolphin called Jock: an injured dolphin, a lost young woman, a story of hope 
SN  - 9781761067358
U1  - 333.9516092 23/eng/20220531
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Horrill, Melody.
KW  - Horrill, Melody
KW  - Adult child abuse victims
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bottlenose dolphin
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Port Adelaide River
KW  - Dolphins
KW  - Wildlife conservation
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - River dolphins
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - Voluntarism
KW  - Mental healing
KW  - Animals
KW  - Wounds and injuries
KW  - Abused children
KW  - Women journalists
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "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
ER  -