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The fascinating history of the persecution and conservation of the African elephant. It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them, Hannibal took them over the Alps, and Kublai Khan encountered them in India. However, it is only the last hundred years that the existence of the African elephant has been threatened. Once the Great White Hunters with their special elephant guns arrived, elephants in the south of the continent were decimated. Blood Ivory tells the story of how the professional hunting fraternity were the first to realise the threat to the elephant and how they kick-started the whole conservation movement. Robin Brown paints a vivid picture of the impact of hunting on Africas elephant population and the powerful personalities of those involved on both sides of the massacre from Cecil Rhodes to Dennis Fitch-Hatton and Edward, Prince of Wales to David Sheldrick. AUTHOR: Robin Brown is a film-maker whose credits include the Nature Watch series with Julian Pettifer and the EMMY-winning In the Company of Whales. His books include two volumes of autobiography and The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba: An African Mystery, Nature Watch, Nature Watching and Nature Watchers. 20 b/w illustrations

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Masterly account of the massacre of the African elephant

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ROBIN BROWN is a film-maker whose credits include documentaries on Peter Scott and Wilfred Thesiger, the Nature Watch series with Julian Pettifer and the EMMY-winning In the Company of Whales. His books include two volumes of autobiography (Bye Bye Shangri La and Shark Infested Custard), several novels, and The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba and Marco Polo for Sutton Publishing.

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