The Search For Elephants In Thailand

Author : Deborah Haile
Publisher : Jonah's Global Footprints
ISBN 13 : 9781733458641
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Elephants in Thailand written by Deborah Haile and published by Jonah's Global Footprints. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous five-year-old, Jonah, goes on an unexpected trip to Thailand with his mom. Going to a different country is always exciting, but especially when you know you're going to see your favorite animal. Spending the day with the elephants of Thailand was all Jonah was looking forward to, but will bad weather, national holidays, and unexpected changes keep him from ever visiting the Elephant Sanctuary?

Author : Deborah Z Haile
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733458610
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Elephants in Thailand written by Deborah Z Haile and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand was all Jonah was looking forward to, but a number of hiccups in the plan might prevent his dreams from coming true!

Author : Komar & Melamid
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780060955960
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Elephants Paint written by Komar & Melamid and published by Harper. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries elephants in Thailand have been revered as a national symbol, worshiped as living gods and employed as beasts of burden in the nation's thriving timber industry. But when logging was banned in Thailand in 1990, these noble animals fell on hard times. Reduced to performing tricks for tourists by day and illegal heavy labor by night, Thailand's elephants were exhausted, malnourished, and dying in alarming numbers. Hearing of their plight, a pair of unlikely heroes came to the rescue, Wildly eccentric Russian emigre artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid devised a brilliant scheme: to create the world's first quadruped occupational retraining program-a network of art schools for unemployed elephants. Taking a cue from elephant trainers in a number of American zoos, Komar and Melamid taught the animals to hold brushes in their trunks and apply paint to canvas. And the results were astonishing: Not only did the elephants' paintings closely resemble the expansive gestural work of such Abstract Expressionist artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, but the pachyderm painters also began to develop clearly distinct regional styles-lyrical and expressive in the northern Thai school, subtle and atmospheric in the east, dynamic and angst ridden in the central school. Sanctioned by the World Wildlife Fund, the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project has been a remarkable success; paintings by some of the most talented elephant artists have been auctioned at Christie's for thousands of dollars, generating funds to provide proper care for the elephants and support for their trainers. When Elephants Paint follows Komar and Melamid and their eclectic entourage through Thailand's lush jungles and steaming cities, describing the odd encounters and creative cajoling that helped turn this seemingly whimsical idea into a concrete, beneficial reality. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including actual elephant paintings, this riotously funny and provocative book offers a valuable lesson in wildlife conservation and startling revelations about the nature of art itself.

Author : Aston Heath
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781973567936
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephants of Thailand written by Aston Heath and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants of Thailand: The Smiling Elephant Elephant Rescue! A touching true story Chang, a baby elephant and his adventures as he is rescued from captivity. Children and adults alike can learn compassion and courage from Chang. The Smiling Elephant tells a true story of the plight of elephants in captivity. This beautifully illustrated children's book about elephants in Thailand takes the child through an elephant's life, starting from the jungle, life in the tourist industry and then being rescued and taken to an elephant refuge park. During this story your child will be educated on the true life of real elephants and the impact this has on their lives. They will also learn valuable lessons about overcoming being different and how our happiness, even during difficult times, can make those around us happy. The Second book in the series is out now! Mosha, the Elephant Who Would Not Give up. If you liked the characters in this story the Smiling Elephant t-shirts are available now on Amazon fashion. Download your copy today!

Author : Dow Phumiruk
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1534122982
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mela and the Elephant written by Dow Phumiruk and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Colorado Book Award Finalist Recognized in The 50 Best Multicultural Picture Books of 2018 Mela sets out to explore the river outside her village but quickly ends up in trouble when her little boat is swept downstream and into the dense jungle. She encounters a crocodile, a leopard, and some monkeys, offering each a prize return for helping her find her way home but the animals snatch up their rewards without helping Mela back to her village. Just when she's about to give up, an elephant shows Mela that kindness is its own reward. This new fable is told with authentic Thai customs and includes an author's note with more Thai traditions and language.

Author : Govert Schilling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248996
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant in the Universe written by Govert Schilling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter--and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the universe. Despite decades of research, the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We call it dark matter. In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos--some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation. Taking a holistic view of dark matter as a problem, an opportunity, and an example of science in action, The Elephant in the Universe is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the universe.

Author : Christopher Kremmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalking the Elephant Kings written by Christopher Kremmer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Bamford Seidelmann
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 1633410625
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming with Elephants written by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to search for a way to feel good again. Having witnessed human suffering early in her career and within her own family, she longed for a way to address more than just the physical needs of her patients and to live in a lighter, more conscious way. Swimming with Elephants tells the eccentric, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious experience of a working mother undergoing a bewildering vocational shift from physician to shamanic healer. During that tumultuous period of answering her call, Sarah met an elephant who would become an important spirit companion on her journey, had bones thrown for her by a shaman in South Africa, and traveled to India for an ancient Hindu pilgrimage, where she received the blessing she had been longing for. Ultimately, she discovered an entirely different way of healing, one that she had always aspired to, and that enabled her to help those who are suffering.

Author : John M. Kistler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260047
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Elephants written by John M. Kistler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.

Author : Aston Heath
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781983024047
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosha the Elephant Who Just Would Not Give Up written by Aston Heath and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Thailand's most famous elephant, written just for kids. Mosha, the Elephant Who Just Would Not Give up is the touching true story of an elephant who overcame a difficult challenge, only to learn how to help others. Kids will enjoy this beautifully illustrated story of an elephant who overcame difficulty and would try again each day. Kids will read about perseverance as they hear the true story of an elephant who just did not give up was eventually able to help others. They will be educated on the true plight of elephants. Read to your child the famous true story of Mosha and Motala who live in Thailand at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation and featured in many documentaries. This is the second book in the best selling series, Elephants of Thailand. Please visit Aston's author page to find more amazing stories and look out the for Smiling Elephant t-shirts based on the characters in the Elephants of Thailand series.