Author: Sir James Emerson TennentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon
Author: Sir James Emerson TennentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon
Author: James Emerson Sir TennentPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
As one can guess from the title, the following book is a guide, as well as a report, to capturing elephants from the wild and putting them in captivity. The elephants in question were taken from Sri Lanka, and the reports were penned by James Emerson Tennent, who was a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for the Irish seats of Belfast and of Lisburn, and a resident Colonial Secretary in Ceylon.
The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon
Author: James EMERSON (afterwards TENNENT (Sir James Emerson))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon
Author: Sir James Emerson TennentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming It in Ceylon
Author: James Emerson TennentPublisher:
ISBN: 9789748299990
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
Author: James Emerson Sir TennentPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
'Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon' is a book about the wildlife of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), written by James Emerson Tennent, who previously served as the colonial secretary of the region. It discusses in depth the various animals that reside in the area, from mammals to arachnids.
Last Chain on Billie
Author: Carol BradleyPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250025702
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradley's Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer her past, who never lost sight of the life she was meant to have. Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her days surrounded by family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. Instead, traders captured her as a baby and shipped her to America, where she learned to carry humans, stand on a tub and balance on one leg – the full repertoire of elephant tricks. For decades, Billie crisscrossed the country, dazzling audiences as she performed breathtaking stunts. But behind the scenes she lived a life of misery: traveling in trucks, chained for hours on end, barely able to move, giving eight-minute performances under harsh lights and to the sounds of blaring music. And worse.Finally, she got a lucky break. As part of the largest elephant rescue in American history, Billie wound up at a sanctuary for performing elephants in Tennessee, able once more to roam through open meadows and share her days with a herd. She would never be beaten again. But, overcome with anxiety, she withdrew from the rest of the elephants and refused to let anyone remove a chain still clamped around her leg. Her caregivers began to wonder if Billie could ever escape her emotional wounds. The compelling story of Billie's battle to reclaim her old self is a testament to the intelligence, emotional complexity and remarkable strength of all elephants, captive or free.
Segregated Species
Author: Jules Skotnes-BrownPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa. Throughout the twentieth century, rural South Africa was dominated by systems of racial segregation and apartheid that brutally oppressed its Black population. At the same time, the countryside was defined by a related settler obsession: the control of animals that farmers, scientists, and state officials considered pests. Elephants rampaged on farmlands, trampling fences, crops, and occasionally humans. Grain-eating birds flocked on plantations, devouring harvests. Bubonic plague crept across the veld in the bodies of burrowing and crop-devouring rodents. In Segregated Species, Jules Skotnes-Brown argues that racial segregation and pest control were closely connected in early twentieth-century South Africa. Strategies for the containment of pests were redeployed for the management of humans and vice versa. Settlers blamed racialized populations for the abundance of pests and mobilized metaphors of pestilence to dehumanize them. Even knowledge produced about pests was segregated into the binary categories of "native" and "scientific." Black South Africans critiqued such injustices, and some circulated revolutionary rhetoric through images and metaphors of locusts. Ultimately, pest-control practices played an important role in shaping colonial hierarchies of race and species and in mediating relationships among human groups. Skotnes-Brown demonstrates that the history of South Africa—and colonial history generally—cannot be fully understood without analyzing the treatment of both animals and humans.
Elephant Trails
Author: Nigel RothfelsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
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