About this title: Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the "jewels of the elephant"--its great tusks--for their beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. In "Ivory's Ghosts," John Frederick Walker tells the astonishing story of the human lust for ivory and its cataclysmic implications for elephants. Each age and each culture, from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America and modern Japan, found its own artistic, religious, and even industrial uses for the remarkable material that comes from the teeth of elephants and a handful of other mammals. Sensuous figurines, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780871139955ISBN:0871139952
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Pages clean and new, looks unread, dust jacket very good with small dent front. Overall book is almost new. . read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9780871139955ISBN:0871139952
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780871139955ISBN:0871139952
Description: New in New jacket. Item is brand new from publisher overstock. Hardcover with dust jacket. May have Publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. From Publishers Weekly: With a mix of appalled testimony and meticulous research, Walker (A Certain Curve of Horn) traces the story of ivory from Paleolithic times to the present and the devastation the ivory trade has wrought on African and Asian elephants--by one estimate, 2.8 million were killed between 1850 ... read more
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridge
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781423377986ISBN:1423377982
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Binding: Spoken Word MP3-CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9781423378006ISBN:1423378008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9780871139955ISBN:0871139952
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781423378006ISBN:1423378008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780871139955ISBN:0871139952
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9781423377986ISBN:1423377982
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridge
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781423377986ISBN:1423377982
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