| Description |
xiii, 304 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298, 302-304). |
| Contents |
Cultural and classical elephants. The meaning of elephants / Donald J. Consentino, Joyce Poole, Colin M. Turnbull, and Jan Knappert ; The origin of elephants / Franklin Edgerton ; War elephants / Arrian ; Aristotle's elephant / Aristotle ; Pliny's elephants / Pliny the Elder ; Beasts of the book / T.H. White -- Colonial and industrial elephants. Killers and heroes / Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming ; Industrial killers / W.D.M. Bell -- Working and performing elephants. To break and tame / U Toke Gale ; A mother's love / J.H. Williams ; Jumbomania: a circus story / P.T. Barnum ; Death and the circus / Charles Edwin Price ; Cutting the chain / Carole Bradley ; Abusing captive elephants in India / Shubhobroto Ghosh -- Social and sexual elephants. Individuals / Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton ; Families / Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton ; Green penis disease / Joyce Poole ; Sex / Cynthia Moss -- Emotional and cognitive elephants. Joy / Cynthia Moss ; Triumph and grief / Joyce Poole ; Big love / Carl Safina ; A concept of death / Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole ; The secret language of elephants / Katy Payne ; Elephant in the mirror / Joshua M. Plotnik, Frans B.M. de Waal, and Diana Reiss ; An interest in skulls and history / Karen McComb, Lucy Baker, and Cynthia Moss -- Empathetic and endangered elephants. The good Samaritans / Katy Payne ; Rescuing the antelopes / Lawrence Anthony ; Scents and sensibilities / Lyall Watson ; Blood ivory / Bryan Christy ; In praise of pachyderms / The Economist -- Fictional and literary elephants. Faithful elephants / Yukio Tsuchiya ; A mahout and his war elephant / Vu Hung ; Dear elephant, sir / Romain Gray. |
| Summary |
"From trunk to tail, these thirty-three essential historical, scientific, and cultural writings on the elephant range from folktales to current practices, creating a greater understanding of this creature"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Elephants are one of the planet's most recognizable animals and yet are the least understood. The essential writings in this book cover the three species of still-living elephants across time and space. Selected by Dale Peterson, these contributions by African, Asian, European, and North American authors range from classical Mediterranean descriptions and early Sanskrit mythology to timeless folktales, medieval Latin interpretations, colonial hunters' tales, circus accounts, contemporary fiction, and the reasoned insights and analyses to scientists and nonscientists from the modern era. Together they provide a cultural and natural history of one of the world's greatest natural wonders"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Subject |
Elephants.
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Elephants -- Behavior.
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Elephants -- War use.
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Elephants -- Folklore.
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Elephants -- Religious aspects.
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Elephants -- Symbolic aspects.
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Elephants. (OCoLC)fst00908011
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Elephants -- Behavior.
(OCoLC)fst00908012
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Elephants -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst02004968
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Elephants -- Symbolic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01751043
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Elephants -- War use.
(OCoLC)fst01921939
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
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| Added Author |
Peterson, Dale, editor.
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| Added Title |
33 ways of looking at an elephant |
| ISBN |
1595348662 paperback |
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9781595348661 paperback |
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