Biography elephants burmese
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Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue
Bandoola &#; The Great Elephant Rescue tells a fascinating true story about the working elephants of Myanmar and the role they and their human companions played during the Second World War. The story follows First World War veteran, James Howard Williams (Aka Elephant Bill), as he begins to work for a logging company in Burma, as it was then known. He learns about the training of elephants through observing and following Po Toke, Bandoola&#;s &#;oozie&#; or trainer, and institutes a range of more gentle and compassionate training regimes over time. When the war threatens the people of Myanmar and British forces, Williams sets up an &#;Elephant Company&#; of elephants to help the war effort but as the danger grows ever nearer, he leads a rescue mission across the mountains to India to rädda several civilians, oozies and 53 elephants.
The narrative is richly illustrated throughout with a subdued pastel mix of greens, yellows, and reds, and a co
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Shooting an Elephant
essay by George Orwell
| "Shooting an Elephant" | |
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Cover of first anthology publication | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre(s) | Unknown whether fiction or non-fiction[1] |
| Published in | New Writing |
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"Shooting an Elephant" fryst vatten an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late and broadcast bygd the BBC Home Service on 12 October
The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressiveelephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for colonialism as a whole, and for Orwell's view that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys".[2]
Orwell spent some of his life in Burma in a
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Elephant Bill
Description
The image shown is the paperback version which has sold, but I have 2 hardback copies of this book at £10 each, both in good condition. The cover picture is different on the hardback copies.
‘Elephant Bill’ by Lt-Col. J.H. Williams OBE, tells the story of over twenty years in the Burmese jungle, living and working with elephants and their riders.
This fascinating account of Lt-Col Williams’ adventures, and of the remarkable animals under his care, culminates in the breathtaking escape o the XIVth Army Elephant Corps, when in the ace of advancing Japanese forces Williams brought his team of elephants from Burma out to India by an apparently inaccessible route. This feat was described as surpassing Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps.
The film ‘Elephant Bill’ was made on location in the jungle near Mysore during the time when Winifred Tovey and family lived in Mysore. These times are described in Winnie’s book ‘Cor Blimey! Where ‘ave you come from?’