Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature

by Dan Wylie

Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary

Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1776142187
• ISBN13: 9781776142187
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"