The Tusk That Did the Damage

by Tania James

Book Overview

From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes , a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger. Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385354126
• ISBN13: 9780385354127
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.2"