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Giants of the Monsoon Forest : Living and Working with Elephants
by Jacob Shell
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Overview
Giants of the Monsoon Forest journeys deep into the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India to explore the world of teak logging elephants and their intriguing alliance with humans. Jacob Shell's narrative vividly depicts elephants' extraordinary intelligence, and the complicated bond with individual human riders, a partnership that can last for decades. Giants of the Monsoon Forest reveals an unexpected relationship between evolution in the natural world and political struggles in the human one, while considering how Asia's secret forest culture might offer a way to help protect the fragile spaces both elephants and humans need to survive.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393358445
- ISBN-10: 0393358445
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: October 2020
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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