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The Great Elephant Escape
The Great Elephant Escape
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The Great Elephant Escape describes the early years of Bring The Elephant Home.
"In the summer of 2002, I volunteered at the Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary for elephants in Northern Thailand. On one of my first nights in Thailand, in the middle of the crazy busy Bangkok traffic, I stumbled upon a young elephant. It was covered in wounds and infections, and its mahout asked tourists for money to feed it. My motivation grew ineradicable roots. Back in the Netherlands, I couldn’t stop thinking about the street elephants I encountered in Bangkok. We founded ‘Bring The Elephant Home’ in 2004 with the idea of rescuing two street begging elephants and to start a demonstrative journey across Thailand." By Antoinette van de Water:
The Great Elephant Escape describes the liberation of two street elephants and their journey to the Elephant Nature Park. It is a breathtaking adventure through the world of flirtatious elephant traders, poor villagers, well-wishing monks, and angry animal-rights advocates.
By Antoinette van de Water & Liesbeth Sluiter, Silkworm books publisher
Paperback, 162 pages, publication date March 2009.
This book will be shipped from the Netherlands.
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