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Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rothfels, Nigel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Colección:Animals, history, culture
Temas:
Captive elephants > History.
Elephants > History.
Éléphants en captivité > Histoire.
Éléphants > Histoire.
Captive elephants.
Elephants.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Blind Men's Elephants
  • Toto
  • 1 First among Monsters
  • Storage
  • The Place Where Elephants Come to Die
  • The Elephant Corpse
  • Monstrorum princeps
  • 2 Afraid of Mice
  • So Great a Stranger
  • The First and Grandest of Terrestrial Creatures
  • The Corral
  • Unendingly Melancholy
  • 3 A Serpent for a Hand
  • The Monarch
  • Naturally Savage
  • A Creature of the Pleistocene
  • The Last Fell with Its Head Resting on the Other
  • 4 The Most Friendly Creature
  • The Good Elephant
  • The Finest Zoological Building in the World
  • Forever Chained to One Damned Spot
  • A Grotesque and Tragic Figure
  • Dying in a Zoo
  • 5 A Descendant of Mastodons
  • A Mud Show
  • The Mightiest of Living Creatures
  • Removing the Chains
  • Circuses and Zoos
  • 6 The Last of Its Kind
  • The Spell of the Elelescho
  • The Alarm
  • Sic transit elephantus
  • 7 Trails of History
  • Catching Apples, Looking at Mirrors, and Knowing Elephants
  • Tears
  • Notes
  • For Further Reading
  • Index.

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