Mark Shand

Mark Roland Shand was a British travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, a member of the British royal family. Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centered 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.