- Elephants, Fiction, Behavior, African elephant
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, the most splendid of nature's creatures, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.
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- Author
- Barbara Gowdy
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 330
- Publisher
- Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Flamingo, Metropolitan Books
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, Dutch, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9780805060355
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