Back to the Wild Life

Back to the Wild Life

by Nancy Lifset
Back to the Wild Life

Back to the Wild Life

by Nancy Lifset

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Overview

A sauvignon blanc-in-hand memoir by Nancy Lifset,Back to the Wild Life chronicles this former Hill staffer’s escape from the swamps of professional purgatory in DC to the uncomplicated havens of South Africa.

There she finds refuge amongst the wildlife and wineries despite her battles with “the dreadful creatures commonly known as baboons.” In this tale of survival of the fittest, Lifset rekindles her passion for life…the wild life.

After twenty-five years toiling in the legislative trenches as a Capitol Hill staffer and enduring a professional crisis of titanic proportions, Nancy Lifset leaves the staid confines of Washington, DC to recapture her passion for life in the wilds of Africa,chronicling her journey with side-splitting humor.
This madcap adventure of “wildlife, wine, a whim and a prayer” follows her escapades after the fallout of the Randy “Duke” Cunningham scandal to the wacky world of a Namibian wildlife sanctuary and the lush hills of the Cape winelands country, where she takes on a whole new set of challenges.

From her encounters with an unruly, spiteful colony of baboons to her twisted exploits in the refined world of wine tourism, she finds herself in the middle of one outlandish situation after another. In her reports from the field,
Nancy pulls no punches – but takes a few of her own – as readers join her on the
rollercoaster ride that is her sojourn back to (in)sanity.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012350329
Publisher: Ironcutter Media LLC
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 220
File size: 460 KB

About the Author

A retired Hill staffer, wine enthusiast, animal lover and junkie for South Africa, Nancy Lifset penned Back to the Wild Life,a humorous memoir of her adventures in southern Africa that helped resuscitate her passion for life after a game-changing
detour in her career. With dry wit and wine uncorked, Nancy showcases an acerbic style and an uncanny ability to find inspiration in the random one-off’s that make life a mosaic of coincidences.

Nancy earned her B.A. in journalism at the University of Maryland (1980), and began her 26-year career on Capitol Hill during her senior year of college, cutting her teeth “digging dirt” and doing opposition research for several U.S. Senate campaigns. Later as a staffer in the House and Senate, she handled everything from
“guns” to “butter” issues, and got her first taste for the “wild life” in the work hard, play hard world of Washington, D.C.

She retired from Capitol Hill in 2006, mentally battered after the dust settled from her former boss’s fall from DC grace, and returned to work as a lobbyist in the private sector. In 2009 she charted a new course and left behind the workday world and years of professional drama, for the wildlife sanctuaries and wineries of Southern Africa in the summer of 2009, where she began living and writing Back to the Wild Life.

Passionate about wine, Nancy’s “no connoisseur – just the ultimate consumer.” Her guiding principle has always been “keep it simple and straight up” – all except for the glass. A lifelong dog lover, she’s been actively involved with Rhodesian Ridgeback rescue. No less a cause for Nancy is that of wildlife conservation. All of these passions converged in her trip to Africa, and ultimately, were part of her journey back to the wild life.

Raised in Springfield, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, Nancy is a long-time resident of Capitol Hill where she still lives with her husband Kevin and their dog, Margo.
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