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Giants of the Monsoon Forest
Living and Working with Elephants
Seiten
2020
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35844-5 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35844-5 (ISBN)
A “beautifully written” (The New Yorker) journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.
For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures and their relationship with humans. Visiting tiny logging villages and forest camps, Shell describes fascinating characters, both elephant and human, and interweaves his account with the incredible history of this centuries-long alliance. Giants of the Monsoon Forest offers new perspective on animal intelligence and shows us how Asia’s secret forest culture might offer a way to save elephants and protect our wilderness.
For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures and their relationship with humans. Visiting tiny logging villages and forest camps, Shell describes fascinating characters, both elephant and human, and interweaves his account with the incredible history of this centuries-long alliance. Giants of the Monsoon Forest offers new perspective on animal intelligence and shows us how Asia’s secret forest culture might offer a way to save elephants and protect our wilderness.
Jacob Shell is a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 32 pages of photographs; 4 maps |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 211 mm |
Gewicht | 236 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-393-35844-5 / 0393358445 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-35844-5 / 9780393358445 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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