Elephant Winter - Hardcover

Echlin, Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786706104 ISBN 13: 9780786706105

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari, " and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.

About this title

Synopsis:

When Sophie Walker leaves Zimbabwe to return to her family's home in Ontario to care for her dying mother, she questions her nomadic existence until she spies a herd of elephants on the adjacent property and begins a relationship with the animals and their trainer, Jo Mann.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0786706104
• ISBN 13: 9780786706105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206