Elephants Life : An Intimate Portrait from Africa

Caitlin OConnell Author

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Elephants Life : An Intimate Portrait from Africa

English

ISBN: 0762763744

EAN: 9780762763740

Category: Nature / Wildlife/Travel / Africa / General/

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The

Release Date: 11/08/2011

Synopsis: The struggles and celebrations of natures largest land creatures--with more than 250 spectacular full-color photos by Caitlin OConnell and Timothy Rodwell An Elephants Lifeprovides a unique and fascinating immersion into the world of the African elephant, told by a leading field biologist who has been researching and photographing these animals in their natural habitat for nearly two decades. Here, for the first time, readers get a fuller picture of elephant society cast in a broader context, including the life of the male elephant in all its high drama. Merging the visual traditions of photojournalism and the nature documentary with the narrative voice of such classics as Jane Goodalls Chimpanzees of Gombe, this large-format, full-color volume of photo essays provides a uniquely rich understanding of what its like to grow up and live within the complexities of elephant society at every turn of the page. Readers will experience the frustrations and anguish of the coming-of-age male struggling to leave his family, witness the constant vigilance a matriarch exerts to protect her family, and feel the drama of a dominant male trying to hold onto power during times of peace and times of social upheaval. Like Wolf Empire(Lyons Press, 2007), An Elephants Lifeis an intimate portrait of a beloved and fascinating species.

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