Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family |
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C Moss
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Pages: 364 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0226542378
Pub: Chicago University Press
Pub date: 2000-08-14
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 155784
Reader Reviews:
Elephants, Africa, Adventure - Enjoy! (0/0 people found this helpful)
If you have a passion for things Africa, if you are happy to accept that we as humans are part and parcel of our planet's fragile ecology, and if you can imagine life as an elephant on the plains of Africa then you will love this book. This is probably the best book on elephants that I have ever read.
Others have said that "it is perhaps one of the best books on the structure of animal society and the individuals that constitute that society". I would agree.
The author portrays the life and times of elephant society in the Amboseli. It is scientific yet touching. I couldn't put the book down - now I wish I could travel to Amboseli and meet these 'friends' for myself.
The author demonstrates that like us, elephants have distinct personalities which develop through their lives. They laugh, they cry, and they think. Read the book, you won't regret it.
An fascinating glimpse of elephant society (23/23 people found this helpful)
This is one of the best books on elephants I have ever read. In fact, it is perhaps one of the best books on the structure of animal society and the individuals that constitute that society.
Detailed and scientific, yet well-written and touching, this book will keep you gripped as it recounts the fascinating story of the elephants of the Amboseli.
All the elephants have distinct personalities and as we follow them through birth, life, death, joy, sadness and laughter, we come to realise that we are all far more similar than we think. A truly wonderful book.
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