ELEPHANTOMS:

vii, 219 pages: frontispiece. Paperback. Page edges browned.

Signed inscription from Watson on title page.                                                                                        

Watson first came face-to-face with an elephant during his childhood in South Africa. He embarked on a life-long obsession to understand the nature and behaviour of the animal. Watson draws on many sources to document the elephant's capability to remember and to mourn, its mythic origins, its evolution, and its devastation in recent history. Watson (12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008) was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist and ethologist; and authored many books.