Africa's Elephant: A Biography

Martin Meredith

ISBN 10: 0340770813 / ISBN 13: 9780340770818

Published by London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001

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Condition Notes: Just a hint of fading to the spine of the dust wrapper with the price clipped.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.8 kg); pp (ix) 244; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Colour photographs, on individual leaves; Black & white drawings; Photographic lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202757 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Africa's Elephant: A Biography
• Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0340770813
• ISBN 13: 9780340770818
• Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Yet elephant history has been dominated by periods of brutality and persecution, used in gladiatorial combat, as weapons of war (most notably by Hannibal) and for their ivory, prized since ancient times as a symbol of wealth and status. As the ivory trade continued there are now only five countries with sizeable elephant populations, where a few hundred years ago there were forty-six - before the European hunters arrived. Acclaimed African expert Martin Meredith has written the first full biography of the elephant - wide-ranging, moving and never less than fascinating in his travels through the history and present of 'Nature's great masterpiece' (John Donne).

About the Author

Martin Meredith has spent most of his working life writing about Africa, for fifteen years writing about Zimbabwe and Kenya for the Observer and the Sunday Times. From 1991-93 he co-ordinated a team of economists to advise governments in South Africa on prospects for establishing an economic community post-apartheid.