A Training School for Elephants - Hardcover
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A Training School for Elephants
Out of a sidelined, colonial-era expedition in Africa comes a new history of cruelty, deception and adventure from the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants--if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the...
Sophy Roberts is a British writer whose work focuses on the wild places from Papua New Guinea to the Congo. Her first book was The Lost Pianos of Siberia. She began her career assisting the writer Jessica Mitford, and trained in journalism at Columbia University. She regularly contributes to the Financial Times and Conde Nast Traveler.
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