This poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat, in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hand of man. It also includes a fascinating compilation of facts and figures from elephant history.
Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, is determined to re-examine this case. There were alarming disparities in the evidence and Hughes has little doubt that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. But there is also something else pushing this half-Iranian, half-Libyan outsider to reach for the truth . . . This is more than a mere expose of corruption, it is a dark tale of solitude...