His Majesty's Elephant

His Majesty's Elephant
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Publisher : Clarion Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0152007377
ISBN-13 : 9780152007379
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis His Majesty's Elephant by : Judith Tarr

Charlemagne's daughter must call on her own magic and the power of a young Breton and a special elephant to save her father from a deadly Byzantine spell.

The Elephant

The Elephant
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0020422865
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Elephant by : Charles Knight

Tiger! Tiger! (The First Jungle Book)

Tiger! Tiger! (The First Jungle Book)
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Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages : 33
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:SMP2300000064780
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Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Tiger! Tiger! (The First Jungle Book) by : Rudyard Kipling

Tiger! Tiger! - Shere Khan hunt Mowgli. Mowgli returns to the human village and is adopted by Messua and her husband, who believe him to be their long-lost son. Mowgli leads the village boys who herd the village's buffaloes. Shere Khan comes to hunt Mowgli, but he is warned by Gray Brother wolf, and with Akela they find Shere Khan asleep, and stampede the buffaloes to trample Shere Khan to death. Mowgli leaves the village, and goes back to hunt with the wolves until he becomes a man. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. Famous stories of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, Her Majesty’s Servants.

The Monthly Magazine

The Monthly Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 688
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ISBN-10 : CHI:79289464
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monthly Magazine by :

Power and Majesty

Power and Majesty
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Publisher : Lid Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0999187147
ISBN-13 : 9780999187142
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Power and Majesty by : Larry Laverty

The first book by wildlife photographer and writer Larry Laverty, Power and Majesty features extraordinary images and informative text that capture the life of African elephants. The book focuses on these majestic animals and features stunning photographs from the most remote corners of Africa, from the savannahs and deserts to the rivers and jungles. The text introduces various elephant habitats, explores the magical qualities of elephants, and underscores the immense challenges they face for survival in a world dominated by humans. The photographs and information showcased in this book will help increase our appreciation and understanding of the African elephant's significant place in the animal kingdom, and Larry Laverty will be donating all of his profits to this worthy cause. Their abilities to love, to remember, to function as families, and to survive under some of the harshest conditions will change the way we think about elephants, with the hope that this knowledge will encourage more people to help save those who remain in the wild.

Bibliotheca Indica

Bibliotheca Indica
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 800
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCAL:B2875709
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliotheca Indica by :

The Land of the White Elephant

The Land of the White Elephant
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002413263G
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Rating : 4/5 (3G Downloads)

Synopsis The Land of the White Elephant by : Frank Vincent

Elephants & Kings

Elephants & Kings
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780226264530
ISBN-13 : 022626453X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Elephants & Kings by : Thomas R. Trautmann

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Bibliotheca Indica

Bibliotheca Indica
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 782
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ISBN-10 : ONB:+Z259106001
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Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliotheca Indica by : Abu-'l-Faḍl Ibn-Mubārak