Ivory Ghosts

Download Ivory Ghosts full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Ivory Ghosts ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Ivory's Ghosts

Ivory's Ghosts
Author :
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781555849139
ISBN-13 : 155584913X
Rating : 4/5 (13X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ivory's Ghosts by : John Frederick Walker

Download or read book Ivory's Ghosts written by John Frederick Walker and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast


Ivory's Ghosts Related Books

Ivory's Ghosts
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: John Frederick Walker
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-19 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The H
Ivory Ghosts
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Caitlin O'Connell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-07 - Publisher: Alibi

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“With descriptions and dialect so real you feel as if you might be turning pages while sitting deep in the bush, and a skillful narrative that teaches while i
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Eve L. Ewing
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Scho
Consuming Ivory
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Alexandra Celia Kelly
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-18 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs
Nature's Ghosts
Language: en
Pages: 511
Authors: Mark V. Barrow
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endanger