Ivory's ghosts : the white gold of history and the fate of elephants
Book |
1st ed. |
Atlantic Monthly Press,
New York :
c2009.
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About
Details a history of human lust for ivory, and describes international efforts to prevent poaching and save the devastated African elephant population in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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- ISBN: 9780871139955
- ISBN: 0871139952
- Physical Description: 312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map.print
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2009.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-290) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Prologue. 1898 -- Part 1. Shapes in tusks. Mammoth teeth -- Tribute and treasure -- Master carvers' medium -- Part 2. Ivory under the saw. Piano keys and billiard balls -- "Tooth of ivory and a slave to carry it" -- Ivory hunters -- Part 3. Elephant dilemma. Researchers and poachers -- Ivory ban -- Elephant dreams, elephant realities -- Epilogue 2007 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.