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Charles Frederick Holder

The Ivory King: A Popular History of The Elephant And Its Allies

Gyan Publishing House, 2023

47.56 €

Gyan Books Pvt Ltd

(Delhi, India)

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Year of publication
2023
ISBN
1111024859716
Author
Charles Frederick Holder
Pages
396
Publishers
Gyan Publishing House
Keyword
History
Binding description
Paperback
Languages
English
Binding
Softcover
Print on demand
Yes

Description

About The Book : Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy. To produce the eight hundred tons of ivory used annually, nearly seventy-five thousand elephants are destroyed; and it does not require the gift of prophecy to foresee their extinction in the near future. Every ivory tusk that is brought to the African coast from the interior is said to cost a human life; and that we may have ivory fans, billiard-balls, chessmen, knife-handles, inlaid furniture, grotesque Japanese statuary, etc., the elephant, who has been man's helpmate from 1200 B.C., and perhaps earlier, to the present day, is threatened with extermination.
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