Behemoth : the history of the elephant in America /: the history of the elephant in America. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronald B. Tobias.
• Authors: Tobias, Ronald B, 1946-
• Contents: Seeing the elephant -- The unfortunate man who won an elephant in a raffle -- Race to the White House -- The voyages of Columbus -- Romeo and Juliet, an American tragedy -- Amok -- Farming with elephants -- Jumbo nation -- Jumbo saves the Brooklyn Bridge -- The skeleton and the manikin -- White elephants -- Elephant bizarre -- Born in the USA -- Matriarch -- AC/DC -- Circus day, Butte, Montana, 23 August 1900 -- Elephant baseball -- A lynching in Tennessee -- How Jumbo got his shnozz -- Secret agents -- Seeing the digital elephant.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 636.967; Nature -- Animals -- Mammals; Captive elephants -- United States -- History; Captive elephants; History -- Social History; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062244864; 0062244868
• Related ISBNs: 9780062244857; 006224485X
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.