{"product_id":"because-they-needed-me-michael-blumenthal-9780912887388","title":"Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure-filled as Beryl Markham's in \u003cem\u003eWest With the Night.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA lot of people have asked me whether they could write 'my book, ' Rita wrote to Michael shortly thereafter, \"and I said no, because I was envisaging a story both sad and happy, but certainly mixed with a lot of humor. But if you asked me, I would not say no.\"\u003c\/em\u003e With that, for the only time in her life, Rita entrusted another human being with thirty years' worth of her journals, and a rare and unusual collaboration was born. \u003cem\u003eBecause They Needed Me\u003c\/em\u003e is that story, a chronicle of primate conservation and the intrepid and courageous woman who devoted her life to it. It is like no other book of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Blumenthal, Rita Miljo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0912887389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780912887388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aequitas Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Michael Blumenthal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063491293439,"sku":"9780912887388","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd2f9226-d3e7-49dd-8287-dbfd22469f1c.jpg?v=1685389870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/because-they-needed-me-michael-blumenthal-9780912887388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}