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“It takes a little while of perspective-hopping for the reader to sort out how the elephant-defenders of Kenya are linked to the threatened mammoths of Siberia – which is a satisfying process in itself. You spend much of the book joining dots and appreciating links between past and present” Read more...
“The premise of this book is very neat: mammoths have been recreated, but they are also being hunted for their ivory, in a future where elephants have already gone extinct. We see a few different perspectives, including a boy dragged along with an illegal hunting party, a disgusted husband brought along on a luxury hunting trip – and a mammoth. Specifically, the mammoth has a previously-human consciousness. I won’t say more on that, as part of the enjoyment is slowly piecing together how the puzzling first few perspectives can all hang together.” Read more...
