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Author | : Chamalee Namal Weeratunge |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1632990024 |
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The Elephant Gates is a recollection of the simple pleasures of childhood caught up in an inevitable tide of change. With vivid and touching detail, it recalls Weeratunge’s life, home, and family in her native village of Depanama on the island of Sri Lanka. Weeratunge’s memories reveal a yearning for past times when traditions like celebrating the New Year or a Full Moon Day, still endured. Her poignant reminiscences evoke compassion for a misunderstood vagrant and a captive elephant, and curiosity for the appearance of the Pot-Bellied Merchant and Uncle Robert the Capitalist. She celebrates everyday heroes like the Coconut-Plucker, the Cook of Sweet Meats, and the Buffalo-Herdsman. With delicate diplomacy, cultural change is signaled by events such as the abandoning of the firewood hearth and the arrival of the television. These intricately woven stories are told with an engaging voice and graceful prose. Time, as it often does, has softened the edges and imparted a gentle humor in each vignette, whether in describing a rice harvest or sharing a game of checkers on the veranda. Ultimately, The Elephant Gates reaffirms our innate affinity for home, family, and the need to belong.
Author | : Curtis Christopher Comer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-27 |
Genre | : Elephants |
ISBN | : 9781483933900 |
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Forcibly taken from family in his native homeland, young Siam grows up a prisoner in Hitler's Berlin. There, with others like him, he struggles to comprehend the depravations he is forced to endure while behind bars. When the air war finally reaches the Nazi capital, Siam's faith is tested as those he loves die and he spirals into a deep despair that threatens to destroy his spirit. This is the true story of Siam, "the Last Elephant in Berlin."
Author | : Margo Gates |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications (Tm) |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1541558642 |
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"Written at an instructional level, this ... fictional story will engage younger readers with ... illustrations of animal families that make their home on the savanna"--
Author | : Chamalee Namal Weeratunge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781632990013 |
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Author | : John Lockwood Kipling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Animal welfare |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frank Kinsey Evans |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2000-08-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 059512500X |
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This book is a series of vignettes about my life in the wild animal business. It brings the reader into the mind of the people who are responsible for caring and maintaining all of the wild animals in captivity today. It illustrates the many emotions which come into play when one deals with wild animals, some of whom can be dangerous. It lets the reader experience those emotions whithout incurring the risk.
Author | : Nīlakaṇṭha (of Rajamangalam) |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9788120800052 |
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This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the elephant-lore of Hindus. It consists primarily of a translation of the Elephant-Sport (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha, with notes, introduction, and glossary. The Matanga-Lila is without doubt the best available Sanskrit work on elephantology. It is a brief and succinct treatise in 263 stanzas, divided into twelve chapters of uneven length. Nothing is known of the Nilakantha who is mentioned as its author. According to the editor, Ganapati Sastri, the three manuscripts he used are about two hundred years old. But the work is probably very much older. For aught we know it may go back a thousand years or even to a much earlier date. This, however, is purely conjectural; all we can say is that there is no positive trace of modernity in the work. The elephant-lore of our text is based on a genuine traditional knowledge which grew up among those whose business it was to deal with elephants, and that this tradition has persisted to modern times.
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Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Engineering |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michelle Szydlowski |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1800624476 |
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A study of elephant tourism in Nepal from its origins in the 1960s to the present day, this book examines the challenges faced by captive elephants. Used as human conveyance, on anti-poaching patrol teams, as rescue vehicles, and in forestry service, elephants have worked with and for humans for hundreds of years. However, the use of elephants in tourism is a fairly new development within Nepal. Because the health and welfare of tourism elephants is vital to the conservation of wild individuals, this book offers an assessment of captive elephant needs and an examination of their existing welfare statuses. This book seeks to examine the motivations of these NGOs and INGOs, and to consider their ethical approaches to elephant health and welfare. Are the motivations of these organizations similar enough to work together towards a common goal, or are their ethical norms so different that they get in one another's way? Using an ordinary language and ethics framework, this text aims to identify the norms of cultures and organisations and reframe them in ways which may allow for more successful interactions.
Author | : Carr Stephen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
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