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The Great Indian Elephant Book

Author : Dhriti K. Lahiri-Choudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Elephant Book written by Dhriti K. Lahiri-Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, elephants have been a source of wonder, fear, and fascination to man. While depiction of the elephant in art, sculpture and literature goes far back in time, this anthology focuses on the nineteenth century when the British Empire was on the ascendant in India, Burma and Sri Lanka, and colonial rulers began using the elephant in war and for transport, even as they were hunting it. This comprehensive collection includes excellent descriptions of these intelligent and sagacious animals in the wild, with rare insight into elephant behavior, anatomy and haunts, as well as the odd apocryphal story about them: is there really an elephant graveyard in Sri Lanka? Do elephants have extraordinary memories? Did a man-eating elephant actually exist? The book contains accounts by leading elephant-men--from Champion and sanderson to Samuel Baker and Symington--all from works no longer readily available. With fascinating photographs and drawings, this is an informative and delightful collection.

Elephant Days and Nights

Author : Raman Sukumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195638219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Elephant Days and Nights written by Raman Sukumar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Has Been Studying The Life Of Wild Elephants In Southern India Since 1980. This Is The Story Of His Work On Elephants, Their Ecology, Social Behaviour, Interactions With People, And The Problems They Face.

The Great Elephant Chase

Author : Gillian Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192753700
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Great Elephant Chase written by Gillian Cross and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the elephant came to town, Tad and Cissie went to the show like everyone else. Little did they know it would change their lives for ever. Because of the elephant, Tad and Cissie get involved in a chase across America, by train, by flatboat, and steam boat. Close behind is HannibalJackson, who is determined to have the elephant for himself. And how do you hide a large Indian elephant?BLThis book was the winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Smarties Prize. Gillian Cross has also won the Carnegie Medal and is a highly-acclaimed author.

A Trunk Full of Tales

Author : Dhriti K. Lahiri-Choudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trunk Full of Tales written by Dhriti K. Lahiri-Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elephant Dance

Author : Theresa Heine
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841489179
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Elephant Dance written by Theresa Heine and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen along with Ravi to Grandfather's captivating stories about India, where the sun is like a ferocious tiger and monsoon rains cascade like waterfalls. Notes after the story include facts about India's animals, food, culture and religion, and a simple elephant dance music score. AGES:4 to 10 years ILLUSTRATIONS: Colour

Elephas Maximus

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143031741
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Elephas Maximus written by Stephen Alter and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid Portrait Of An Animal That Has Captured The Imagination Of Humans For Millennia Elephas Maximus, The Majestic Asian Elephant, Is Still Revered In Indian Religion And Culture. Yet, Unabated Ivory Poaching Conjures Up Fears Of A Future When Tuskless Males May Be All That Survive And Conservationists Are Fighting To Preserve Its Endangered Habitat As Settlements Expand. Fascinated By This Regal Animal And Its Unique Relationship With Humankind, Stephen Alter Travelled Extensively Across India To Explore Its Natural Home, And Its Place In History And Myth. Alter'S Search Takes Him From National Parks Where He Observes Elephants In The Wild To The Annual Sonepur Mela Where They Are Bought And Sold, To Kota Where They Once Played A Unique Role In Royal Festivals. He Charts The Elephant In Art, Religion, Folklore And The Everyday World Of India, Bringing To Life The Complex Past And Troubled Present Of This Majestic Creature While Offering Hope For Its Future.

The White Elephant and Other Tales From India

Author : Georgene Faulkner
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 373641708X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The White Elephant and Other Tales From India written by Georgene Faulkner and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Elephant The Grain of Corn The Timid Little Rabbit Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals The Kingdom of Mouseland The Alligator and the Jackal The Bold Blackbird The Kid and the Tiger The Brahmin and the Tiger The Bear's Bad Bargain The Man Who Rode a Tiger

Robi Dobi

Author : Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher : Dial Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robi Dobi written by Madhur Jaffrey and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian elephant befriends a mouse, a butterfly, and a parrot, and together they have many adventures.

The Great Indian Novel

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628721596
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Novel written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

The Elephant Doctor of India

Author : Janie Chodosh
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641603100
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant Doctor of India written by Janie Chodosh and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Elephant Doctor of India is the heart-quickening true story of a boy who loved elephants and grew up to forge a maverick path to help them. Dramatic, moving, and packed with fascinating elephant facts, young readers will find inspiration and excitement on every page. No matter what age you are, if you love elephants, you will love this book."—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and Kakapo Rescue Early on a January morning in 2015, a young bull elephant touched on a sagging electric line in the Paneri Tea Plantation in the Udalgari District of Assam, India. The elephant's soft-padded feet conducted the current and the animal fell, kicking in the mud. The local veterinarian called to the scene thought the tusker was going to die. The forest department warden called the one person who could help: Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma, India's beloved elephant doctor. The Elephant Doctor of India brings the middle-grade reader into the heart of Assam, a remote land of tea plantations, paddy fields, and ancient forests, to tell the true story of the last viable population of wild Asian elephants and one man who is dedicated to saving them. Author Janie Chodosh spent time with Dr. Sarma and brings his incredible story—and the lives of these magnificent animals—to readers in classrooms everywhere.

The Elephant's Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India

Author :
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 0763659169
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant's Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India written by and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2012 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws eight stories from well-known collections of Indian folktales--Hitopadesha tales, Jataka tales, and Panchantra tales--and presents them with cartoon-like illustrations.

Indian Elephant Diary

Author : The Mindful Word
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781987869088
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Indian Elephant Diary written by The Mindful Word and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Elephant Diary sports decorated Indian elephants (a subspecies of the Asian elephant) on the cover. These elephants are used in festivals in India and are also painted. This journal features: 200 lined pages (100 sheets) 6 x 9 inches 60 pound (90 gsm) cream-colored paper Perfect bound matte softcover (10 pt stock) Ten percent of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes towards enabling youth in developing countries to access better educational opportunities. This money is being donated to Build to Learn, an initiative started by The Mindful Word.

To the Elephant Graveyard

Author : Tarquin Hall
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158382
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book To the Elephant Graveyard written by Tarquin Hall and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Introduces us to the darker side of the Asian elephant. It is more of a thriller than a straightforward travel book . . . insightful and sensitive.” —Literary Review On India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue’s destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate. To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization. Hungry, confused, and with little forest left to hide in, herds of elephants are slowly adapting to domestication, but many are resolute and furious. Often spellbinding with excitement, like “a page-turning detective tale” (Publishers Weekly), To the Elephant Graveyard is also intimate and moving, as Hall magnificently takes us on a journey to a place whose ancient ways are fast disappearing with the ever-shrinking forest. “Hall is to be congratulated on writing a book that promises humor and adventure, and delivers both.” —The Spectator “Travel writing that wonderfully hits on all cylinders.” —Booklist “A wonderful book that should become a classic.” —Daily Mail

The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780670081455
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For More Than Four Decades After Gaining Independence, India, With Its Massive Size And Population, Staggering Poverty And Slow Rate Of Growth, Was Associated With The Plodding, Somnolent Elephant, Comfortably Resting On Its Achievements Of Centuries Gone By. Then In The Early 1990S The Elephant Seemed To Wake Up From Its Slumber And Slowly Begin To Change Until Today, In The First Decade Of The Twenty-First Century, Some Have Begun To See It Morphing Into A Tiger. As India Turns Sixty, Shashi Tharoor, Novelist And Essayist, Reminds Us Of The Paradox That Is India, The Elephant That Is Becoming A Tiger: With The Highest Number Of Billionaires In Asia, It Still Has The Largest Number Of People Living Amid Poverty And Neglect, And More Children Who Have Not Seen The Inside Of A Schoolroom Than Any Other Country. So What Does The Twenty-First Century Hold For India? Will It Bring The Strength Of The Tiger And The Size Of An Elephant To Bear Upon The World? Or Will It Remain An Elephant At Heart? In More Than Sixty Essays Organized Thematically Into Six Parts, Shashi Tharoor Analyses The Forces That Have Made Twenty-First Century India And Could Yet Unmake It. He Discusses The Country S Transformation In His Characteristic Lucid Prose, Writing With Passion And Engagement On A Broad Range Of Subjects, From The Very Notion Of Indianness In A Pluralist Society To The Evolution Of The Once Sleeping Giant Into A World Leader In The Realms Of Science And Technology; From The Men And Women Who Make Up His India Gandhi And Nehru And The Less Obvious Ramanujan And Krishna Menon To An Eclectic Array Of Indian Experiences And Realities, Virtual And Spiritual, Political And Filmi. The Book Is Leavened With Whimsical And Witty Pieces On Cricket, Bollywood And The National Penchant For Holidays, And Topped Off With An A To Z Glossary On Indianness, Written With Tongue Firmly In Cheek. Diverting And Instructive As Ever, Artfully Combining Hard Facts And Statistics With Personal Opinions And Observations, Tharoor Offers A Fresh, Insightful Look At This Timeless And Fast-Changing Society, Emphasizing That India Must Rise Above The Past If It Is To Conquer The Future.

The Dragon and the Elephant

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847650473
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Elephant written by David Smith and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. Will China still be a repressive and undemocratic regime, embracing free market economics but only when it suits? How aggressive a superpower will it be? And what about India, whose huge and growing population and economic prospects appear to guarantee prosperity? David Smith analyses the ways in which the world is tilting rapidly Eastwards, and examines all the implications of the shift in global power to Beijing, Delhi and Washington - a shift that will creep up on us before we know it.

Ants Among Elephants

Author : Sujatha Gidla
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0865478112
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Ants Among Elephants written by Sujatha Gidla and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary -- and yet how typical -- her family history truly was. Her mother and uncles were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor people, little changed. In rich, novelistic prose, Ants Among Elephants tells Gidla's extraordinary family story detailing her uncle's emergence as a poet and revolutionary and her mother's struggle for emancipation through education.

Travels on My Elephant

Author : Mark Shand
Publisher : Eland Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906011697
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Travels on My Elephant written by Mark Shand and published by Eland Pub Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorable account of a journey across India on an elephant.