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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants

byJacob Shell

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. Drawing on scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, the narrative gives Giants of the Monsoon Forest a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the living and working with elephants becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within nature and social science. Giants of the Monsoon Forest emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780393247763