Jacob Shell

Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

No one who loves elephants or how humans interact with wildlife should pass up Jacob Shell's remarkable book. Dan Flores, author of Coyote America

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393247770
• Artikelnr.: 59589862

Autorenporträt

Jacob Shell is a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.