Among the Elephants

Author - Iain Douglas-Hamilton; Oria Douglas-Hamilton

Publisher - Collins & Harvill Press; 1975, First edition.

A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket.

Dustjacket is clipped and shows creasing at the front bottom edge. Removal of former overwrap has left residual sellotape to the reverse; now in new, loose protective plastic overwrap.

Internally clean and tightly bound.

285 pages including Boadicea's family tree; Acknowledgements, Bibliography and the index.

Many groups of stunning and amazing photographs in monochrome and colour.

In 1965 Iain Douglas-Hamilton commenced his five-year study where he lived among the elephants in a camp in the woodlands famed for their tree-climbing lions. He taught himself to recognise the individual elephants and made the first systematic study of their behaviour in the wild. With other scientists he pioneered the radio tracking of their movements and recorded every minute of their daily lives. He watched the young bring up the babies and the old rush off to the help of the stricken and dying.

The superb photographs in this book were taken by his wife.

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