Elephants in the Hourglass
A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya

THE MAKING OF Elephants in the Hourglass, would be a better title for this book. I was hoping that this book would explain the problem of elephants and people coexisting, or failing to do so, in India, and some of it did. But instead of focusing on the title problem or it's solutions, most of this b......more

What it takes to balance motherhood and chase an endangered wildlife story (Sun Valley, Idaho, Northern Rockies, and northeast India bordering Nepal at the base of the Himalayas; 2013 to 2021): “I am an unlikely explorer. A mother of two daughters. Not a scientist or adventurer, but a woman who over......more

I loved this book! I am known for my love of animals, especially elephants, and my librarian put this book aside for me with a note “Saw this book. Thought you would enjoy it.” I’m so glad she did! I felt as though I were there with Kim for the entire adventure and found myself at the edge of my sea......more

This is not a scientific textbook about Elephas maximus. Instead, this is a story about an improbable journey taken by an uncertain woman to an area she knew nothing about, to tell a story of people she had never met trying to co-exist with a fabled species losing habitat at an alarming rate, with f......more

Conflicted. While I appreciate Frank’s honesty throughout, I have a lot of thoughts. Firstly, if you’re actually wanting to know about actual human-elephant conflict in Northeast India, what’s being done about it and who the players are, skip to the last 75 pages. I appreciate her deep introspection,......more