Afbeelding 1 van 1
Jacob Shell Giants of the Monsoon Forest (Hardback)
Another great item from Rarewaves USA | Free delivery!
Objectstaat:
8 beschikbaar
Verzendkosten:
Bevindt zich in: 60502, Verenigde Staten
Levering:
Varieert
Retourbeleid:
30 dagen om te retourneren. Koper betaalt voor retourzending. Details bekijken- voor meer informatie over retourzendingen
Betalingen:
Winkel met vertrouwen
Verkopergegevens
- 97,5% positive feedback
Ingeschreven als zakelijke verkoper
De verkoper neemt de volledige verantwoordelijkheid voor deze aanbieding.
eBay-objectnummer:335266268974
Specificaties
- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest : Living and Working with Elephants
- Publication Name
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest
- Title
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest
- Subtitle
- Living and Working with Elephants
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0393247767
- EAN
- 9780393247763
- ISBN
- 9780393247763
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Nature, Social Science
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Animals / Mammals, Animals / Wildlife, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Animals / General
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 09/07/2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
Over dit product
Product Information
High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest , geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures. The relationship between elephant and rider is an intimate one that lasts for many decades. When an elephant is young, he or she is paired with a rider, who is called a mahout . The two might work together their entire lives. Though not bred to work with humans, these elephants can lift and carry logs, save people from mudslides, break logjams in raging rivers, and navigate dense mountain forests with passengers on their backs. Visiting tiny logging villages and forest camps, Shell describes fascinating characters, both elephant and human--like a heroic elephant named Maggie who saves dozens of British and Burmese refugees during World War II, and an elephant named Pak Chan who sneaks away from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to mate with a partner in a passing herd. We encounter an eloquent colonel in a rebel army in Burma's Kachin State, whose expertise is smuggling arms and valuable jade via elephant convoy, and several particularly smart elephants, including one who discovers, all on his own, how to use a wood branch as a kind of safety lock when lifting heavy teak logs. Giants of the Monsoon Forest offers a new perspective on animal intelligence and reveals an unexpected relationship between evolution in the natural world and political struggles in the human one. Shell examines why the complex tradition of working with elephants has endured with Asian elephants, but not with their counterparts in Africa. And he shows us how Asia's secret forest culture might offer a way to save the elephants. By performing rescues after major floods--as they did in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami--and helping sustainably log Asian forests, humans and elephants working together can help protect the fragile spaces they both need to survive.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393247767
ISBN-13
9780393247763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038304691
Product Key Features
Book Title
Giants of the Monsoon Forest : Living and Working with Elephants
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Animals / Mammals, Animals / Wildlife, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Animals / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[A] fascinating and timely account of an overlooked natural bond, the deep tie between people and domesticated elephants. Full of insights into history and with rare accounts from modern-day mahouts, Giants of the Monsoon Forest shows how this ancient relationship provides a path forward - for the elephants, for the forests, and for the rural cultures that rely on both., For millennia Asian elephants have lived in a complicated relationship between working during the day for humans and returning at night to socialize and mate in the wild with other elephants. This relationship may have helped their species to survive., At last, Jacob Shell's book Giants of the Monsoon Forest describes a relationship with a fellow creature that--in Burma, at least--is more collegial rather than murderous or exploitative., Among the most enjoyable parts of the book are the stories of individual elephants. ... Highly readable., Shell's research is extensive and meticulous. He complements visits to logging and transport camps, and interviews with human stakeholders, with a review of elephant labor in history, including during major conflicts from the time of Alexander the Great through the Vietnam War., A thrilling exploration of the unique alliance between humans and elephants in one of the world's last great shadowy regions (beyond even the reach of Google Maps). Not only brimful of fantastic tales of derring-do--escapes, rescues, and furtive forest work--Giants of the Monsoon Forest is also a brave manifesto for how this age-old, mysterious, and symbiotic relationship might survive, and even help to protect, the Earth's fast-diminishing wilderness., [A] beautifully written travelogue and ethnography of the centuries-old relationship between humans and logging elephants., Never truly domesticated, many elephants in Southeast Asia work for humans during the day and yet are let go at night to forage in the forest. Jacob Shell discusses this age-old pact between two brainy species. Even if our view of the human-animal relationship is changing, the awe in which we hold elephants is amply fed by the stories and history in this fascinating book, especially those in which elephants appear to use their own judgment to solve problems in the field., Rigorous, poignant, and highly readable, Giants of the Monsoon Forest is an urgent, impassioned, and important reminder that relations between humans and non-humans need not and must not be as disastrously dislocated as they usually are; that human dignity is increased if we recognize the dignity of our non-human cousins, and dangerously diminished if we do not., [A] deep dive into the surprisingly complex relationship between [elephants and humans]. ... Illuminating., A fascinating exploration of a relationship between two species who could not be more different. Tucked away in one of the last pristine forests on earth, humans and elephants have worked together for centuries, forming a unique bond that exists nowhere else. Beautifully written, and carefully researched, Giants of the Monsoon Forest is an important insight into the minds of elephants, and a moving account of both the best and worst of human nature., The greatest strength of Giants of the Monsoon Forest is it's author's clear-eyed pragmatism. Mr. Shell respects elephants without sentimentalizing them., No one who loves elephants or how humans interact with wildlife should pass up Jacob Shell's remarkable book. From Hannibal's elephants, to those of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to the author's own accounts of logging elephants in Burma, Shell's stories of these intelligent animals and their human companions sing with compassion. I was thoroughly hooked.
Lccn
2018-058217
Dewey Decimal
599.67
Lc Classification Number
Ql795.E4s525 2019
Copyright Date
2019
Objectbeschrijving van de verkoper
Informatie van zakelijke verkoper
Rarewaves-USA
10100 W Sample Rd
33065 Coral Springs, FL
United States
Ik verklaar dat al mijn verkoopactiviteiten zullen voldoen aan alle wet- en regelgeving van de EU.
De verkoper neemt de volledige verantwoordelijkheid voor deze aanbieding.
eBay-objectnummer:335266268974
Verzending en verwerking
Object wordt niet verzonden naar Verenigde Staten
Objectlocatie:
60502, Verenigde Staten
Wordt verzonden naar:
Albanië, Algerije, Amerikaans-Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua en Barbuda, Argentinië, Armenië, Aruba, Azerbeidzjan, Bahama's, Bahrein, Bangladesh, België, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnië en Herzegovina, Botswana, Britse Maagdeneilanden, Bulgarije, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodja, Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek, Chili, China, Colombia, Comoren, Cookeilanden, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Democratische Republiek Congo, Denemarken, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominicaanse Republiek, Ecuador, Egypte, El Salvador, Equatoriaal-Guinea, Eritrea, Estland, Ethiopië, Falklandeilanden (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Filipijnen, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Georgië, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Griekenland, Groenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinee, Guinee-Bissau, Guyana, Haïti, Honduras, Hongarije, Hongkong, IJsland, India, Indonesië, Irak, Ivoorkust, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordanië, Kaaimaneilanden, Kaapverdische eilanden, Kameroen, Kazachstan, Kenia, Kirgizië, Kiribati, Koeweit, Kroatië, Lesotho, Letland, Libanon, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Litouwen, Luxemburg, Maagdeneilanden (VS), Macau, Macedonië, Madagaskar, Malawi, Maldiven, Maleisië, Mali, Malta, Marokko, Marshalleilanden, Mauritanië, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesië, Moldavië, Monaco, Mongolië, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibië, Nauru, Nederlandse Antillen, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nieuw-Zeeland, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Noorwegen, Oeganda, Oezbekistan, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Polen, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republiek Congo, Roemenië, Rwanda, Saint Kitts en Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre en Miquelon, Saint Vincent en de Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi-Arabië, Senegal, Servië, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint-Helena, Slovenië, Slowakije, Solomoneilanden, Somalië, Spitsbergen en Jan Mayen, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Tadzjikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad en Tobago, Tsjaad, Tsjechië, Tunesië, Turkije, Turkmenistan, Turks- en Caicoseilanden, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vaticaanstad, Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Vietnam, Wallis en Futuna, Wereldwijd, Westelijk Samoa, Westelijke Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zuid-Afrika, Zuid-Korea, Zweden
Uitgesloten:
Afghanistan, Australië, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazilië, Brunei Darussalam, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Frans-Guyana, Frans-Polynesië, Guadeloupe, Ierland, Israël, Italië, Jemen, Laos, Libië, Martinique, Mexico, Nederland, Nieuw-Caledonië, Oekraïne, Oostenrijk, Russische Federatie, Réunion, Spanje, Venezuela, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, Wit-Rusland, Zwitserland
| Verwerkingstijd |
|---|
| Wordt doorgaans binnen 6 werkdagen na ontvangst van betaling verzonden. |
| Belasting |
|---|
| Er kunnen belastingen van toepassing zijn tijdens Betalen. Meer weten?Lees meer over het betalen van belastingen op eBay-aankopen. |
Btw voor objectnr.335266268974
Btw voor objectnr.335266268974
Verkoper berekent btw op objecten die naar de volgende staten worden verzonden:
| Staat/provincie | Btw-tarief |
|---|
Retourbeleid
| Nadat u het object hebt ontvangen, kunt u contact opnemen met de verkoper binnen | Kosten voor retourzending |
|---|---|
| 30 dagen | Koper betaalt voor retourzending |
De koper is verantwoordelijk voor de kosten van de retourzending.
| Details retourbeleid |
|---|
| Retourzendingen geaccepteerd |
Betalingsgegevens
Betalingsmethoden
Ingeschreven als zakelijke verkoper
Feedback verkoper (63.359)
9***t (671)- Feedback gegeven door koper.
Afgelopen maand
Geverifieerde aankoop
Great dvd,fast shipping,fast seller
m***o (2)- Feedback gegeven door koper.
Afgelopen maand
Geverifieerde aankoop
Great experience
0***8 (68)- Feedback gegeven door koper.
Afgelopen maand
Geverifieerde aankoop
Super merci beaucoup.