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Giants of the Monsoon Forest : Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell; OverDrive, Inc is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Giants of the Monsoon Forest : Living and Working with Elephants about?

A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders. High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures. The relationship between elephant and rider is an intimate one that lasts for many decades. When an elephant is young, he or she is paired with a rider, who is called a mahout. The two might work together their entire lives. Though not bred to work with humans, these elephants can lift and carry logs, save people from mudslides, break logjams in raging rivers, and navigate dense mountain forests with passengers on their backs. Visiting tiny logging villages and forest camps, Shell describes fascinating characters, both elephant and human--like a heroic elephant named Maggie who saves dozens of British and Burmese refugees during World War II, and

Author

Jacob Shell; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393247770