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The white bone

If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud's life on the African plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining watering holes. The herd is ambushed there by ivory poachers, who kill almost all the cows and their young. The traumatized survivors, including a pregnant Mud, set out in search of the talismanic white bone that can lead them to a paradise free from human savagery.

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  • ""Un lieu sûr" a pour figure centrale Bourbe, une jeune éléphante abandonnée par son clan après la mort de la mère. Recueillie par un autre troupeau, elle est condamnée à cercher sa place dans une société matriarcale."
  • "Mud is an infant elephant, orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. She and her adoptive matriarchal family roam the plains of east Africa in search of water and food. At a crowded watering hole in a bad drought, hindleggers find them and despatch, or drive off, almost all of the elephant mothers and their young. Mud, now pregnant with her first calf, flees the carnage only to lose her bearings and her community ..."
  • "If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud's life on the African plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining watering holes. The herd is ambushed there by ivory poachers, who kill almost all the cows and their young. The traumatized survivors, including a pregnant Mud, set out in search of the talismanic white bone that can lead them to a paradise free from human savagery."@en
  • "The story of Mud a young elephant cow, orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers who sets out with the wounderd and traumatized survivors after ivory poachers kill or drive off most of the herd."
  • "A novel on elephants from the elephants' point of view. It is set in Africa and its protagonists are members of a family trying to survive drought and poachers. The elephants are portrayed as having almost human senses, including a sense of humor."
  • "A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory.""@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Text"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Kanadské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Canadian fiction (English)"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Nature stories"
  • "Nature stories"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en

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  • "Der weiße Knochen"
  • "Un lieu sûr"
  • "The white bone"@en
  • "The white bone"
  • "O osso branco"
  • "The white bone : [a novel of elephants]"
  • "The White Bone"
  • "El Tresor blanc"@ca
  • "The White Bone : A Novel"
  • "El tresor blanc"
  • "The white bone : a novel"
  • "The white bone : a novel"@en
  • "Det hvite beinet"
  • "El hueso blanco"
  • "Un lieu sûr : roman"
  • "Der Weisse knochen"
  • "Der weiße Knochen Roman"
  • "The white bone : [a novel]"
  • "Elefanternes lange rejse"@da
  • "Elefanternes lange rejse"
  • "Bílá kost"
  • "The White Bone:a novel of elephants"
  • "De weg naar het water"
  • "El tesoro blanco"@es
  • "El tesoro blanco"
  • "Der weiße Knochen : Roman"
  • "Der weisse Knochen"
  • "White bone"@en
  • "L'osso bianco"@it
  • "L'osso bianco"
  • "Der weisse Knochen : Roman"

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