Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant by Brown, Robin

Hardback. Like New.

Hardback. Very Good.

Sutton, 2008-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1024 9.2913 6.2992.

Stroud: The History Press. 235pp., b/w plates. Book as new. Slight shelf wear to dustwrapper o/w very good condition. . As New. Hardcover. 2008.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Unread. 235pp incl index; 8 b&w photo plates. Very Rare. It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them and Kublai Khan encountered them when he conquered India, employing elephants in their hundreds to carry 16 Tartar bowmen like wooden castles to command the very sky. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the Great White Hunters with their special elephant guns, that the very existence of the African elephant has been threatened. Blood Ivory tells the story of how the professional hunting fraternity was the first to realize the threat to the elephant and how it kick-started the whole conservation movement. It is not a story with a happy ending, however. It is a tale of war; colonialists against traditional practices and customs; newly independent African countries against each other; poachers and smugglers against any kind of constraint. And at the heart of this tragic tale is the sad irony that it is only in… Read More