Title: King Leopold's dream : travels in the shadow of the African elephant /
Authors: Gavron, Jeremy, 1961-
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Gavron, Jeremy, Journeys Africa.; Gavron, Jeremy, Travel Africa.; Elephants Ecology Africa.; Africa Description and travel.
Abstract: On the trail of the African elephant, Jeremy Gavron has woven an extraordinary tale that is at once an adventure, a philosophical inquiry, and a haunting, evocative portrait of Africa. The elephant his explorations reveal is an intensely social being, loyal to its own kind, often traumatized by the disruption of its herd, and even able, according to some experts, to understand its own predicament: the deadly value of its magnificent tusks.
Contents: 1. The Last Elephant in Burundi -- 2. Elephants Are Not Beetles -- 3. What the Gomphotheres Ate -- 4. White Man's Grave -- 5. When Conservationists Fight -- 6. Orphans of the Savanna -- 7. Elephant Farm -- 8. King Leopold's Dream.