The Last Giants
The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant

Have enjoyed Wood's other books describing his epic hikes up the Nile and across the Himalaya, but had never known him as a naturalist until I saw this book. However, he does an excellent job combining his extensive knowledge and research with personal experience to provide pretty much everything a......more

What kind of elephant was Dumbo? Anybody know? My husband and I went to DC last year and had the best time at the zoo. It’s the best one I’ve ever been to. We loved the Pandas and the Elephants! This book was a very short history of elephants and concentrated on how dangerous they can be. I learned......more

This book was an easy choice. I like Levison Wood. I’ve read two of his excellent, if wildly masochistic at times, walking adventures. I like animals. More than people, certainly. That love may be unequal and species contingent, but few can come close to the magic of elephants. And I mean, pure magi......more

The future for elephants is bleak – unless humankind changes its ways. My friend Gail and I are reading this truly fantastic book simultaneously. Gail lives in South Africa near Knysna. She lives close to where elephants once lived in the surrounding forests. Levison Wood thinks there might be one v......more

I’m the first to admit that this review is going to be skewed by something so minor I just can’t get past it, so I’m sorry! I learnt a fair bit throughout this book, not so much about elephants but around the socio and economic impact of the relationship between the animal and humans. It was interes......more