British Book Awards (The Nibbies)
Travels on my Elephant
Mark Shand's travel memoir recounts his journey through India on the back of an elephant. It combines wildlife, conservation, and encounters with people and landscape in a warm, humorous account of the relationship between nature and humans.
Work Information
A journey on elephant back reveals India in a strikingly new way.
Travels on My Elephant follows Mark Shand's journey with the elephant Tara through India. It works as both an adventure story and a memoir that fed directly into his later conservation efforts.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Overlook Books
- Published
- 1992-10-01
- Pages
- 200 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.9 x 2.5 x 24.1 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780879514549
- ISBN-10
- 087951454X
- Price
- 46219 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Travel/Asia/India
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Reviews
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Mark Shand war ein geiler Typ
Ein interessantes Buch eines Abenteurers mit Gewissen und Engagement! Und er war wirklich so - ich habe ihn einmal kennengelernt - crazy Englishman... Inspirierend, interessant, kurzweilig.
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great story
Mark Shand's adventure in India was a marvelous story. I have loaned it out with the promise it will be returned. It will be kept in my permanent library ! Highly recommend this book.
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An Hilarious Moving Travelogue
This hilariously funny, moving book about Mark Shand and his elephant Tara remains a favourite travelogue of mine. The people, places, scent and feel of India are all beautifully documented.
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Great book worth reading.
Loved this book. Geographically & culturally educational.
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Truly adventurous
Mrak Shand's book, "Travels on my Elephant" is a remarkable story of his grueling trip in 1988, from Konark to Sonepur riding Tara his favourite elephant. The book is a magnificent account of human endurance as they traverse deep ravines of the eastern ghats and travel through hot and arid tribal belts of Orissa and Bihar. Pitching tents in rural villages every night, Shand and his team enjoy food, festivals and hospitality of rustic India that make the trip unique and memorable. The arduous journey results in Shand developing deep and intense emotional attachment towards Tara, leading to his establishing "Elephant Family", a leading welfare organization in UK for the protection of Asian elephants. Reviewed in India by M.Ravindran on 20th January 2022.