Marcy Miller was a 1994 graduate of
Boston College with a BA in museum studies/ fine art. She was working as a
research assistant to her fiance Allistair Torr, a wildlife zoologist in the Okavango Delta
region of northern Botswana, Africa. Marcy occupied her spare time drawing and
painting with watercolors. Marcy and Allistair wrote this book, which she
illustrated, with the idea of diminishing some of the mystery of chameleons that
exists in the minds of many African children.
Allistair Torr was a Ph. D. candidate studying the environmental impact of the elephant herds in the Okavango Delta.
He had just begun his second year of field research when he and Marcy perished
in a plane crash in August of 1996. The South African Television Company sent a
film crew to Botswana in June 1996 to record Allistair while he worked. The finished documentary has been seen on South African television.
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