Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

by John Frederick Walker

Book Overview

Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the "jewels of the elephant"--its great tusks--for their beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. In Ivory's Ghosts , John Frederick Walker tells the astonishing story of the human lust for ivory and its cataclysmic implications for elephants. Each age and each culture, from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America and modern Japan, found its own artistic, religious, and even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871139952
• ISBN13: 9780871139955
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"