QUEEN OF THE ELEPHANTS Mark Shand (India)

In QUEEN OF THE ELEPHANTS author Mark Shand describes his elephant ride along the ancient migratory route through the tea gardens of West Bengal, and along the rarely visited Himalayan corridor to Assam.

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PUBLISHER'S BLURB: In the tiny aristocratic figure of Parbati Barua, known as “queen of the elephants”, Mark Shand finds his ultimate guru. He had already learned about the ways of elephants after riding his beloved Tara across India, a journey which he described in “Travels on My Elephant”. But he is no match for the daughter of India's greatest expert on the Asian elephant, the late Prince of Gauripur, who taught her everything. She lassoed her first wild elephant before she was 20. Once he has earned her trust, Shand rides with Parbati the elephants' ancient migratory route through the tea gardens of West Bengal and along the rarely visited Himalayan corridor to her ancestral home in Assam. They were accompanied by Aditya Patankar, whose photographs in this book accompany Shand's account of his quest for a solution to the problem of conserving the Asian elephant.

Book Details

Code: SKU1825

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 193

Published: 1995 by Jonathan Cape, UK

ISBN: 0224035444

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