Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants

by Jacob Shell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393247767
• ISBN13: 9780393247763
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"