Signature Books
It is likely that no animal in human history has been of such great cultural moment as the elephant. Humans and elephants pratically co-evolved, and world cultures - even on continents where no actual elephants lived - are replete with religious icons, origin myths, sculptures, paintings and stories involving elephants - they have, for example, been used in warfare to terrify the enemy. From Disney's Dumbo, to Babar the Elephant, to Horton, in Dr Seuss's Horton Hatches the Egg, to Ganesh, the Hindu god of wisdom, the elephant has been a symbol of intelligence, strength and fidelity.
Containing many illustrations of elephants around the world from ancient times to the present, and packed with anecdote, myth and legend, Elephant will have much to say to all those who admire this noble creature, from lay reader to specialist.