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The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven

Gary, Romain
Griffin, Jonathan

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ISBN10: 1567926266
ISBN13: 9781567926262
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Nov 25 2018
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attributes to his fixation on the freedom and companionability of elephants, travels to Africa intent on stopping the slaughter. He circulates a petition demanding their killing be made illegal. It attracts two signers: a disgraced American from the Korean War and a call girl described as just another animal who needed protection. From here things get really interesting--politically, socially and culturally. Morel realizes that action is necessary; a notorious elephant hunter is shot in the buttocks, while a female trophy hunter is stripped naked and publicly whipped. You never teach a man anything by killing him, he observes, On the contrary you make him forget everything. He gains a following--some drawn by his cause, some by political expediency, some by a need to believe in something, anything, bigger than themselves. He is chased and cornered at Lake Kuru, where a vast assemblage of elephants has converged to drink, and where this novel concludes in a brilliant and memorable climax.

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