Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari, " and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.
- ISBN10 0786706104
- ISBN13 9780786706105
- Publish Date 1 December 1999 (first published 27 February 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Edition Carroll & Graf ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 206
- Language English