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Giants of the Monsoon Forest audiobook
- By: Jacob Shell
- Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
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Giants of the Monsoon Forest Audiobook Summary
A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.
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 smartelephants, 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 this
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 sustainably logging
Asian forests, humans and elephants working together can help protect the fragile spaces they
both need to survive.
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About the Author(s) of Giants of the Monsoon Forest
Jacob Shell is the author of Giants of the Monsoon Forest
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Giants of the Monsoon Forest Full Details
| Length | 7 hours 45 minutes |
| Author | Jacob Shell |
| Publisher | Recorded Books, Inc. |
| Release date | October 29, 2019 |
| ISBN | 9781980064718 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Giants of the Monsoon Forest is Recorded Books, Inc.. The imprint is Recorded Books, Inc.. It is supplied by Recorded Books, Inc.. The ISBN-13 is 9781980064718.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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