A Memory Of Elephants
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Author | : Alex Lasker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
"The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him: a famed hunting guide and his wife, who runs an animal orphanage (a conflict that in time upends their marriage); their son and daughter; and the young Kikuyu who finds the orphaned elephant and becomes part of the Hathaway family. This timeless story is alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, spanning east Africa, Great Britain and New York from 1962 to 2015.
Author | : Cynthia Moss |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022614853X |
“A style so conversational…that I felt like a privileged visitor riding beside her in her rickety Land-Rover as she showed me around the park." —The New York Times Book Review Cynthia Moss spent many years living in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park and studying the elephants there, and her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. In this book, she shares a more up-close and personal perspective, chronicling the lives of the elephant families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless, including a rare look at calves and their development. This edition is also updated with a new afterword, catching up on the families, covering current conservation issues, and “celebrating a species from which we could learn some moral as well as zoological lessons” (Chicago Tribune). “One is soon swept away by this ‘Babar’ for adults. By the end, one even begins to feel an aversion for people. One wants to curse human civilization and cry out, ‘Now God stand up for the elephants!’”—The New York Times “Moss speaks to the general reader, with charm as well as scientific authority…[An] elegantly written and ingeniously structured account.”—TheWall Street Journal “Any reader interested in animals will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly
Author | : Boman Desai |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2001-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226143811 |
Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spent with her. The machine malfunctions, propelling him instead into his collective unconscious where he encounters ancestors and relatives, both dead and alive. In this wildly inventive book—available for the first time in the United States—Homi, blessed with the memory of elephants, discovers the splendor of his heritage as well as hope for the future.
Author | : Sophie Strady |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781452129037 |
Memory and meaning are at the heart of this oversized, content-rich picture book celebrating the life of Marcel, a soulful elephant. From the towering buildings outside his window and his recollected world travels, to the friends, flora, and fauna that flourish around him, Marcel finds significance in his surroundings and, most importantly, in life's abundant details. Marcel is writing an encyclopedia, after all, and his entries are featured in full-page spreads packed with facts, elegantly situated alongside the story of his day and his life. Part story and part miscellany, this unforgettable book with dream-like illustrations will transfix both parents and children.
Author | : Maria Girón |
Publisher | : Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 161164996X |
"Maybe I can help!" exclaimed Arthur. At least he hopes he can. But how? What does this forgetful elephant need? Arthur doesn't know, but he's determined to find out as he and the elephant share a playful and colorful day. Arthur and the Forgetful Elephant explores memory loss from the perspective of both those who forget and those around them. With spare writing and poignant art, this story reminds us that compassion and togetherness can make even elephant-sized problems seem a little smaller.
Author | : Christian Reynolds |
Publisher | : Gate City Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2018-12-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578422619 |
An exploration of consciousness, a memory of elephants is poetry woven in three parts: the personal (mind), the shared (love), and the whole (nature). Using the backdrop of elephant poaching and mistreatment, Reynolds blends traditional and nontraditional styles as he extends his awareness of the universe. We recommend this collection if you love elephants, language as an art form, and/or contemplate the nature of being.
Author | : Cheryl Lawton Malone |
Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0807519618 |
As calves, Asian elephants Precious and Baba roam the wild together, curious and proud. But when they get captured and are split up, their time together seems like a distant memory. Still, separated by many miles and over many years, their friendship remains, and there’s hope they will once again roam wide open spaces together.
Author | : Tania James |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2015-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8184006896 |
When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heart-breaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.
Author | : Juliana Berners |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Falconry |
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Author | : Michael Czyzniejewski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Entertaining, well-written short story collection for those who enjoy seeing the form played with.