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A circle of elephants

Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dinerstein, Eric, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human-animal relationships > Juvenile fiction. Elephants > Juvenile fiction. Jungle animals > Juvenile fiction. Jungles > Juvenile fiction. Orphans > Juvenile fiction. Nepal > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.
Item Description:	Companion to: What elephants know. Maps used as endpapers.
Physical Description:	266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781368016582 1368016588
Author Notes:	Eric Dinerstein, PhD , attended Northwestern University and Western Washington University and did his graduate studies in wildlife science at the University of Washington. He is the Director of biodiversity and wildlife solutions at Resolve, where he devotes his time to the conservation of wild populations of elephants, rhinos, tigers, and other endangered species. He was previously chief scientist and vice president for conservation science at the World Wildlife Fund for nearly twenty-five years. Dinerstein began researching tigers in Nepal in 1975 as a Peace Corps volunteer. He later continued fieldwork in the region, studying rhinos and tigers for the Smithsonian Institution. Dinerstein's nonfiction works include The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros; Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations ; and The Kingdom of Rarities .