Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Five Years of a Hunters Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With Anecdotes of the Chase and Notices of the Native Tribes
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
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Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. ... With illustrations
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Elephant Trails
Author: Nigel Rothfels
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Cumming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Hunting Africa
Author: Angela Thompsell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137494433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137494433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
The Journal of Education for Ontario ...
Author: Egerton Ryerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Journal of Education for Upper Canada
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunters
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunters
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description