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Elephants Among Us: Two Performing Elephants in 20th-century America Illustrated Edition
Author(s): M. Jaynes (Author)
- Publisher: Earth Books
- Publication Date: 5 Mar. 2021
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 214 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781780997063
- ISBN-13: 178099706X
Book Description
Born in the 1970s, Stoney the elephant spent his life traveling and performing with his family. In 1994, he was injured while working in Las Vegas. He died after a nearly year-long medical confinement in a storage barn behind a hotel. The pages within chronicle his short life and tell the complex story of the people who knew him and those who tried to save him. Stoney is the most important elephant you ve never heard of. Also within is the story of the elephant Big Mary, who in 1916 was hanged from a railroad derrick after killing a man in Tennessee. Here an effort is made to combine previous scholarship into a new considered retelling, with the elephant as the core of its focus. Big Mary died at the beginning of the twentieth century, Stoney at the end of it. Both performing elephants underwent disaster, and both can tell us something about ourselves.
Editorial Reviews
Review
– To the fascinating yet troubling stories of language-using great apes, Lucy, Nim, Koko, Kanzi, and Chantek, we now can add the remarkable life of elephant Stoney with all its joy and tragedy. We haven t figured out how to do right by the emotional and intelligent non-humans who encounter our culture and educate, entertain, and enlighten us. Stoney, in these pages, sets us straight. –H. Lyn Miles, Ph.D.
About the Author
M. Jaynes is an American writer living in the Southeast. He has published on various animal ethics issues. Elephants Among Us is his first book.
