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THERE IS NO better way to see India than from the howdah of an Indian elephant. This is exactly what Mark Shand discovered as he set out on a thousand kilometre journey on Tara, a thirty-year-old female elephant. Their destination was the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market.
What began as an adventurous whim soon developed into an unlikely romance. Tara, the scrawny and ill-treated begging elephant which Shand had acquired, was transformed through tender loving care on the journey into a star attraction. Everywhere they went -into communities that had not changed in millennia or along new arterial roads where trans-continental juggernauts thundered past -the western mahout, trained by Tara's minder, and his five eccentric Indian companions drew inquisitive crowds to admire their elephant. This account of the trials and tribulations of the journey is told with charm and wit, and is illustrated with captivating photographs in colour. Yet, in the best tradition of all good travel writing, there was an inward as well as an outward journey. Merely arriving was not the end of the story, and finding a good home for Tara was to present the greatest challenge of all.
With an ear for the comic, an eye for the exotic and a nose for bizarre incident, Shand informs as he entertains and in doing so brings an individual view to the fabulous legacy of one of the oldest and richest associations ever known between man and animal -a partnership that over 4,000 years has imbued the most ancient surviving culture with inestimable meaning and significance.
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What began as an adventurous whim soon developed into an unlikely romance. Tara, the scrawny and ill-treated begging elephant which Shand had acquired, was transformed through tender loving care on the journey into a star attraction. Everywhere they went -into communities that had not changed in millennia or along new arterial roads where trans-continental juggernauts thundered past -the western mahout, trained by Tara's minder, and his five eccentric Indian companions drew inquisitive crowds to admire their elephant. This account of the trials and tribulations of the journey is told with charm and wit, and is illustrated with captivating photographs in colour. Yet, in the best tradition of all good travel writing, there was an inward as well as an outward journey. Merely arriving was not the end of the story, and finding a good home for Tara was to present the greatest challenge of all.
With an ear for the comic, an eye for the exotic and a nose for bizarre incident, Shand informs as he entertains and in doing so brings an individual view to the fabulous legacy of one of the oldest and richest associations ever known between man and animal -a partnership that over 4,000 years has imbued the most ancient surviving culture with inestimable meaning and significance.
Mark Shand is a travel writer with a playboy past which has been exchanged for the life of a fund-raising conservationist. His travel books include River Dog: A journey down the Brahmaputra, Queen of the Elephants, Skullduggery and Travels on my Elephant for which he received the Travel Writer of the Year award. The latter journey directed led to his foundation of Elephant Family - a charity specifically established to protect the environment of the Asian elephant, tiger and orang-utan, and is currently engaged in the creation and acquisition of half kilometre wide jungle corridors that connect together the various different forest reserves.
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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition1991
- ISBN 10 022403085X
- ISBN 13 9780224030854
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages224
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