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White Bone
White Bone
Author: Barbara Gowdy
A classic, moving quest of elephants, memory and the will to survive. * Mud is an infant elephant, orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. She and her adoptive family roam the plains of east Africa in search of water and food. At a crowded watering hole in a bad drought, ivory poachers find them and kill, or drive off, almost all o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805060355
ISBN-10: 0805060359
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed White Bone on + 69 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Really a wonderful read -- a fabulous trip to Africa and if you adore elephants like I do, you shouldn't pass this one up.
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The White Bone is an unsentimental and meticulously imagined immersion into the world of the African elephant . . . This extraordinary novel is utterly believable.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book kept me interested and I didn't want to put it down. Very descriptive and imaginative, the elephants have their own religion and etiquette. The only downside was the ending, which was a bit of a cliffhanger.
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