โ Scribed by Lyall Watson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A scientific safari and personal memoir celebrating the enigmatic dignity of the world's largest land animal.As a child in South Africa, spending summers exploring the wild with his boyhood friends, Lyall Watson came face to face with his first elephant. This "entertaining and enchanting" work (Washington Post Book World) chronicles how Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong quest to understand the nature and behavior of this impressive creature.
From that moment on, Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong obsession with understanding the nature and behavior of this impressive creature. Around the world, the elephant—at once a symbol of spiritual power and physical endurance—has been worshipped as a god and hunted for sport.
"Watson's insights and speculations are dazzling, but what lends them power is his extraordinary knowledge of evolutionary biology and animal behavior, ethnography and South African history" (Wade Davis, National...
Content: The stone age --
Seeing the elephant --
Hearing the elephant --
Finding the elephant --
The iron age --
Losing the elephant --
Tracking the elephant --
Knowing the elephant --
Coming of age --
Imagining the elephant --
An elepiphany.
Elephants;History;Elephants
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