Elephant

In this stunningly illustrated volume, Fuller provides a rich and moving portrait of elephants, exploring their natural history, the legends that have grown up around them, their unique place in art and literature, and their urgent need for protection today.

About the author

Errol Fuller

Summary

In this stunningly illustrated volume, Fuller provides a rich and moving portrait of elephants, exploring their natural history, the legends that have grown up around them, their unique place in art and literature, and their urgent need for protection today.

Foreword

This large-format, lavishly illustrated book, with almost 200 images, is a celebration – and maybe lament – for all things pachyderm.

Additional text

"[Fuller] has a gift of using simple and succinct language when conveying the most important points about elephants."---Lucy Brett-Crowther, International Journal of Environment Studies

Product details

• Authors: Errol Fuller, Fuller Errol
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2019
• Subject: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology
• EAN: 9780691191324
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19132-4
• Pages: 288
• Subjects: Illustration, Thailand, Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Beard, Rudyard Kipling, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, Elephant, Illustrator, Menagerie, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, NATURE / Animals / Mammals, natural history, Mount Kenya, Fine Art, Wildlife: mammals, Scientific American, Rhinoceros, Jaw, North Africa, Elephant Family, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Wildlife: mammals: general interest, Taxidermy, Zoology: Mammals, Zoology: mammals (mammalogy), Human behavior, book illustration, Mastodon, Suffering, ridicule, Cruelty, London Zoo, Hansken, Giulio Romano, The Other Hand, In Death, sophistication, Human overpopulation, Dugong, Asian elephant, african elephant, Triumphal Procession, War elephant, woolly mammoth, African bush elephant, African buffalo, Royal Museum for Central Africa, The Heat of the Day, Babar the elephant, hyrax, West Indian manatee, Indian elephant, The Garden of Earthly Delights, steppe mammoth, Amebelodon, Deinotherium, African forest elephant, Proboscidea, the elephant whisperer, Wildlife art, steller's sea cow, Captive elephants, Musth, mahout, Chunee, Into Battle (novel), Sea Lion Park, Dwarf elephant, Belfast Zoo, Pendjari National Park, Rowland Ward, Raymond Ching, Exeter Exchange, Charles R. Knight, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Mammuthus subplanifrons, Howdah