Elephants Books

The author really does call 'em as he sees 'em. I found the book filled with common sense, even if I didn't always feel comfortable.

If you or a loved one are struggling with a serious illness, you need this book. Judith is a long time personal friend who has managed to survive two devastating cancers for years. As a mystic and spiritual leader, Judith had to summon every tool, connection, friend and realization in her vast arsonal. She has poured her heart and soul into this work, personally testing each prayer, technique, exercise, visualization, and tool during her own dark nights. Never underestimate the power of prayer. One of my favorite parts of this book is reading how Judith could feel my prayers of love and how much they meant to her. Having triumphed from serious illness myself and survived the ravages of my husband's death from cancer, this is all too familiar territy. Judith's book is a powerful masterpiece that contains tried and true remedies for any situation, remedies that have lifted heavy hearts and weary souls during the most devastating times.

This book on the African Elephant follows the trail from Gourma Elephant Reserve in Mali, through the rest of West and Central Africa to Kenya on the east coast. It then turns south to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa, to end in the Addo Elephant National Park.

The engaging text deals with all the most pressing issues of elephant biology and conservation, including poaching, climatic change, the ivory trade and human population increase.

Lavishly illustrated, the book contains reproductions of 24 paintings of elephants in their various habitats, plus beautiful colour cameos and striking pencil drawings of elephants and other animals like the bat-eared fox, the graceful impala, buffalo, the fish eagle, vervet monkey, sable antelope and zebra.

The book contains biological data on African elephants, a list of acronyms, a glossary, bibliography and index. The dust jacket provides biographies and a portrait of artist Paul Bosman and writer Anthony Hall-Martin.

This impressive collaboration will appeal to all those interested in wildlife, conservation, wildlife art and armchair travel. Since its publication, much has already changed on the continent, so Elephants Of Africa has already become an historical record of lasting value.

I am 51 years old. I read this book about 40 years ago and it still resonates in my mind. I remember magical pictures in my head as I read it, pictures of jungle, great elephant herds, and being far, far above the ground as I rode the wild elephants with the main character, a poor young orphan boy. This book created a lifelong facination with elephants and India. I now have a grandson of 10 mos, and I want to make this book available to him when he grows older. For years I searched on and off in local libraries where I was living to try to find it with no luck, but finally found it here at Amazon. I can now read it again. I know that it has built up in my mind to an impossible degree. It probably won't be as wonderful as I remember, but just touching it will bring back special memories of sitting on the screened in front porch in my little Georgia home town, reading about exotic places and people, and learning to travel outside of my own time and place.

Nancey Hardman

When thinking of elephants, Thailand is not the first place that comes to most people's mind. However, as described here, elephants have played a major role in Thai art and culture throughout history.The author draws upon 14 years studying & teaching art in Thailand to present this comprehensive view of the elephant in Thai society. She does well in combining art with the elephants' active ceremonial & working roles. Elephants are shown in many art forms including drawings, engravings, murals, sculpture & bronzes. Well illustrated in b/w, there is also a 16 page color gallery showing a great variety of art and architectural detail. The physical characteristics of the Thai elephant and its current endangered status are covered here as well. This book provides an excellent overall view of the elephant's central role in Thai life & culture.

Any child with an interest in elephants will be exposed to;
unusual facts & great detail, perfectly absorbing illustrations
and a petite, kid-friendly size.....handsomely printed to boot!
A 5*star!!!

I bought this book for my elephant-obsessed son. It is a stunningly beautiful book. Steve Bloom is a wildlife and nature photographer and the quality of the photographs is outstanding. Both African and Indian elephants are featured throughout, photographed in the wild, at work, at play and even swimming in deep water - who knew elephants can swim?

The text manages to be both highly informative and perfectly pitched to a younger audience. Facts are put in terms that children can relate to. In reading this book I learned so many interesting things about elephants (not something I would previously have thought likely). Some examples: Elephants are either left or right tusked just as humans are left or right handed. Elephants can swim underwater using their trunks as snorkels. Elephants educate their boys and girls separately. Elephants remember, even years later, the exact spot where one of their herd died. An easy way to tell Indian and African elephants apart is by the shape of their ears, which resemble the continents which give them their names.

The text and photographs also complement each other extremely well. A lot of thought has been put into this book. It is an absolute joy to read.

This truly beautiful book would make a wonderful gift for any pre-school or primary school aged child who enjoys animals.

This book is so wonderful! Elephants are one of the coolest and most beautiful animals around, and the way they live and help all of each other survive is just amazing! I loved the photos and well writted information, especially on African elephants, the better of the two good elephant species(in my opinion)and this book is a must have for any elephant lover. I suggest and recommend it to all who like to read or like nature, and I will certainly be happy to hear their great reviews, as well as my own. Let's hear some trumpeting.

Introduces both Asian and African Elephants and details the differences. Illustrations are soft-colored paintings that look like the mattes in the back of animal exhibits at zoos or museums. One interesting painting shows an elephant on its hind legs reaching higher than a giraffe. Includes some new vocabulary in the context of the story. For example, "Elephants are plant eaters, or herbivores. They eat grass, leaves, and tree bark." Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

"Elephants: The Deciding Decade" was one of the first elephant books I purchased. At the time I did not know much about elephants. This was a great book for me to "cut my baby teeth" on with regards to its vast overview of elephants: their history, social structure--herds and family groups. It did a good job of discussing young elephants and their behaviors and maturation. It also had some unique topics (I won't spoil it by saying what they were) that I have not seen in the many, many elephant books I've read since. This edition has pertinent updates necessary to know about if one is really serious about elephants and their futures. One of the true joys of this book was the excellent photography. The level of reading is technical at times, yet easily understood for the most part. A must for the true "elephanatic's" book collection!