Title:
Giants of the monsoon forest : living and working with elephants / Jacob Shell.
ISBN:
9780393247763
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Physical Description:
255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Catching elephants -- Powers of trunk and mind -- Muddy exodus -- A counterpoint in Africa -- Breakable chains -- Strange behaviors -- Camps and villages -- Pencil lines on a map -- Flood relief elephant.
Summary:
Documents the complex working relationship between the elephants of Burma and India and their human riders, revealing how Asia's secret forest culture may offer a way to save the endangered species.
OCLC Number:
on1102634099
Availability:
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