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Author : Frederick Cameron Sillar
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Elephants Ancient and Modern written by Frederick Cameron Sillar and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1968 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Scheele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258012540
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Ancient Elephants written by William E. Scheele and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Rothfels
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421442604
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Elephant Trails written by Nigel Rothfels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Elephants (recent and Fossil) Exhibited in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133537
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Retreat of the Elephants written by Mark Elvin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Elephants (recent and Fossil) written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pālakāpya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788180900167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Gajaśāstram written by Pālakāpya and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Publication, the Gajasastram of Palakapya Muni, along with a Sanskrit commentrey, named Bhavasandarsini by Anantakesnabhattaraka as well as the english translation and 136 illustrations, is a very rare and important work, which is still unpublished. The main contribution of the book is the Sanskrit Commentry which is still in the form of Ma. and its English tanslation-cum-paraphrase, possibly by the Scribe himself, viz V Vijyaraghavacharya.
Author : John M. Kistler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260047
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book War Elephants written by John M. Kistler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.
Author : Marianne Johnston
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823952021
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Elephants Past and Present written by Marianne Johnston and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and modern species of elephants.
Author : Marianne Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585259291
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Mastodons, Mammoths, and Modern-day Elephants written by Marianne Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and modern species of elephants.
Author : Richard Carrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elephants written by Richard Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340770818
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Africa's Elephant written by Martin Meredith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yet elephant history has been dominated by periods of brutality and persecution. African elephants were used in ancient times to fight in wars. The Romans threw them into gladiatorial games. But, above all, it was the demand for their ivory, prized for centuries as a badge of wealth and status and used in modern times to manufacture piano keys and billiard balls, that has made Africa's elephants one of the most vulnerable animals on earth. In the late twentieth century, the onslaught was so severe that the African elephant was placed on the list of endangered species."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Carl Whiting Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (778 download)
Download or read book The Elephant and Its Ivory in Ancient China written by Carl Whiting Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626453X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Elephants & Kings written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786728388
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Elephant Destiny written by Martin Meredith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll: now, as wars and poachers continue to ravage its habitat, as disease and political strife deflect attention from its plight, the African elephant faces imminent extinction. What will become of these magnificent beasts? As the elephant's future looms ever darker, Martin Meredith's concise and richly illustrated biography traces the elephant's history from the first ivory expeditions of the Egyptian pharaohs 2500 years ago to today, exploring along the way the indelible imprint the African elephant has made in art, literature, culture, and society. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant's sophisticated family and community structure and reveals the remarkable ways in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. Elegant, illuminating, and urgent, Elephant Destiny offers a beautiful and important tribute to one of earth's most magisterial creatures at the very moment it threatens to vanish from being.
Author : Karl Gröning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elephants written by Karl Gröning and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of elephants, describes their behavior and characteristics, and looks at their influence on various cultures.
Author : John Frederick Walker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 155584913X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Ivory's Ghosts written by John Frederick Walker and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast
