Elephant trails

• Verfasst von: Rothfels, Nigel [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Elephant trails
• Titelzusatz: a history of animals and cultures
• Verf.angabe: Nigel Rothfels
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: viii, 237 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Animals, history, culture
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4259-4
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4260-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Elefanten / (s)Kultur / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Rothfels, Nigel: Elephant trails. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (250 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NK 4940
• K10plus-PPN: 1750892804

Abstract

"The author traces a group of ideas about elephants in the West-that they are wise, deeply emotional, have a special understanding of death, have great memories, and are afraid of mice-to paint a general picture of what he calls "our elephant," the idea of the elephant that has been part of our thinking for millennia. The book is an intellectual and cultural history of the elephant that uses a broad range of published sources along with traditional and less usual archives"--