| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Animals, history, culture |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant." |
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"The author traces a group of ideas about elephants in the West-that they are wise, deeply emotional, have a special understanding of death, have great memories, and are afraid of mice-to paint a general picture of what he calls "our elephant," the idea of the elephant that has been part of our thinking for millennia. The book is an intellectual and cultural history of the elephant that uses a broad range of published sources along with traditional and less usual archives"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Captive elephants -- History
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Elephants -- History
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Captive elephants
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Elephants
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781421442600 |
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1421442604 |
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