Ivory's Ghosts
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Ivory's Ghosts

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Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the "jewels of the elephant"--its great tusks. Ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world for its beauty and rarity and ability to be finely carved. Starting in the Ice Age, when ivory was first imbued with symbolic importance, John Frederick Walker takes the reader on a journey that trac...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published February 2nd 2010 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (first published 2009)
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Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants (Compact Disc)
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