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008			180424s19981998can 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780006481218
050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.G658 _bW47 1999
082	1		_aFIC GOW _2
100	1		_aGowdy, Barbara
245	1	4	_aThe white bone : _ba novel _c/ Barbara Gowdy
260			_aToronto _b: HarperPerennial Canada _c, 1998
300			_a329 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aA thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. 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. 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_a African elephant _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAuthors, Canadian
651		4	_aAfrica _v--Fiction
655		4	_aAdventure stories
942			_cMO
999			_c253888 _d253888