Mark Shand

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Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was an English travel writer and conservationist. He was the brother of Queen Camilla. Shand wrote four travel books, and as a BBC conservationist appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centred on the survival of elephants. His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Travel Writer of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 1992. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002.

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