Details a history of human lust for ivory, and describes international efforts to prevent poaching and save the devastated African elephant population in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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ISBN: 9780871139955
ISBN: 0871139952
Physical Description:312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map.print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-290) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue. 1898 -- Part 1. Shapes in tusks. Mammoth teeth -- Tribute and treasure -- Master carvers' medium -- Part 2. Ivory under the saw. Piano keys and billiard balls -- "Tooth of ivory and a slave to carry it" -- Ivory hunters -- Part 3. Elephant dilemma. Researchers and poachers -- Ivory ban -- Elephant dreams, elephant realities -- Epilogue 2007 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.