The White Puma by R.D. Lawrence5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He participated in D-Day at Normandy where he was seriously injured.Īfter the war, Lawrence he enrolled at Cambridge University where he studied biology for three years but did not complete his degree. He enlisted with the British and went to war again. He made his way back home just in time for the arrival of WWII. He served for two years until he found himself outnumbered in the Pyrenees and fled to France. ![]() Lawrence was a Canadian naturalist and wildlife author of over 30 books.īorn on a ship off the coast of Spain, Lawrence was raised in Spain and at age 14 lied about his age so he could fight in the Spanish Civil War. Lawrence sold the property after Joan’s death. He chronicled the humorous account of this time in the book, The Zoo That Never Was. ![]() Then they bought a 350-acre farm of mostly wilderness, “North Star Farm,” where they cared for orphaned and abandoned animals. ![]() He wrote about it in The Place in the Forest. Among his accomplishments he and his second wife, Joan, maintained a wilderness property, “The Place”, near Uphill (page 219, The Place in the Forest) in Kawartha Lakes (then Victoria County) where Lawrence studied the local wolf pack. Ronald Douglas Lawrence (1921-2003) lived in many places and tried many things. ![]()
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