Robin Brown

Blood Ivory (eBook, ePUB)

The Massacre of the African Elephant

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them, Hannibal took them over the Alps, and Kublai Khan encountered them in India. However, it is only the last hundred years that the existence of the African elephant has been threatened. Once the 'Great White Hunters' with their special elephant guns arrived, elephants in the south of the continent were decimated. 'Blood Ivory' tells the story of how the professional hunting fraternity were the first to realise the threat to the elephant and how they kick-started the whole conservation movement. It is not a story with a happy ending as a history of the conservation movement is essentially a tale of war - colonialists at war with traditional customs; newly-indpendent African countries at war with one another; poachers and smugglers at war with any kind of constraint; and international bodies fighting for the suppression of damaging information. Robin Brown paints a vivid picture of the impact of hunting on Africa's elephant population and teh powerful personalities of those involved on both sides of the massacre - from Cecil Rhodes to Dennis Fitch-Hatton and Edward, Prince of Wales to David Sheldrick

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press LTD
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752475301
• Artikelnr.: 38229163

Autorenporträt

ROBIN BROWN is a filmmaker whose credits include documentaries on Peter Scott and Wilfred Thesiger, the Nature Watch series with Julian Pettifer and the EMMY-winning In the Company of Whales. His books include two volumes of autobiography (Bye Bye Shangri La and Shark Infested Custard), several novels, and The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba and Marco Polo for Sutton Publishing.