Author: John Kistler
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: elephants, war
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0275987612
ISBN-13: 9780275987619
Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian powers boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded elephants alongside their legendary legions but were, perhaps, too proud to admit that mere animals contributed to victory. Elephants have gored, stomped, and sliced their way through infantry and cavalry with great success. They have also been cut, speared, bombed, and napalmed for their efforts. This is the story of their largely forgotten role in the history of warfare.Generals throughout recorded history have used elephants as tanks, bulldozers,
Author: Carol Buckley
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Keywords: elephants
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0884482839
ISBN-13: 9780884482833
Most elephants in America live in circuses and zoos, and their lives are very different from what they would be in the wild. But there’s a very special place in Tennessee called the Elephant Sanctuary, where elephants can finally have the freedom to roam and have elephant friends. Why do elephants come to the Elephant Sanctuary, and what is their everyday life like there? Some are like Shirley, who performed in a circus before an injury forced early retirement and a transfer to a zoo. She lived at the zoo for many years and received good care, but she didn’t have elephant friends.
Author: Constance, Sitwell
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: elephants, flowers
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1406794627
ISBN-13: 9781406794625
Mrs. Sitwell has known India well, and has filled her pages with many vivid little pictures, and with sounds and scents. But it is the thread on which her impressions are strung that it is so fascinating, a thread so delicate and rare that the slightest clumsiness in definition would snap it. With an introduction by E.M. Foster
Author: Phil Bildner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: elephants, one, twenty
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-09-28
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0689870116
ISBN-13: 9780689870118
Step right up, ladies and gents.Believe the unbelievable and dream the impossible because Hannah, the little girl with big dreams, is coming your way.Come and see for yourself her bold acts of bravery, her courageous conviction as she proves to the world that the Brooklyn Bridge is safe to cross.But she can’t do it alone.P. T. Barnum and his parade of twenty-one elephants provide a spectacular show that will save the day!Impossible, you say?Then you’ll have to look inside.You won’t want to miss this, the greatest show on earth.
Author: Sara Gruen
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Keywords: novel, elephants, water
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2007-04-09
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1565125606
ISBN-13: 9781565125605
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-
Author: Kevin J. Holmes
Publisher: Bridgestone Books
Keywords: animals, elephants
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2000-01
List price: $21.26
ISBN-10: 0736804951
ISBN-13: 9780736804950
Provides an introduction to the elephant, covering its physical characteristics, habits, food, and relationship to humans.
Author: Xavier Niz
Publisher: Bridgestone Books
Keywords: mammals, world, elephants
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $21.26
ISBN-10: 0736837175
ISBN-13: 9780736837170
