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The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness Fiction_Gift_Guide individual lives and cosmic destiniesExciting. . . part adventure story, part wildlife taleThe Boston Globe Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about a thousand of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in Africa to study lions, found