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Behemoth PB
Contributor(s): Tobias, Ronald B. (Author)
ISBN: 006224485X     ISBN-13: 9780062244857
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $18.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals - Mammals
- History | United States - General
- History | Social History
Dewey: 599
LCCN: 2013017875
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.38" W x 8.01" (0.88 lbs) 512 pages
 
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In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism. They became so deeply ingrained in the American way that they were once accorded the rights of American citizenship, including the right to vote and the right to provide testimony under oath--and they have incurred brutal punishments when convicted of human crimes.

In Behemoth, Ronald B. Tobias has written the first comprehensive history of the elephant in America. As tragic as it is comic, this enthralling chronicle traces this animal's indelible footprint on American culture.


Contributor Bio(s): Tobias, Ronald B.: -

Ronald B. Tobias is a professor of science and natural history filmmaking in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University. He was a producer for the Discovery Channel for fifteen years and has produced, written, and directed more than thirty natural history films, many of which have appeared on the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.