Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
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- ISBN13: 9780060929510
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most incredible right animal tales ever told. Raised together in a tiny German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. Modoc is a captivating right tale of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure, to be treasured by animal lovers everywhere.Amazon.com Review
Modoc is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a tiny German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant teacher, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each additional. When the Wunderzircus was sold to an American, with no provision to take along the human staff, Bram stowed away on the ship to prevent being separated from his beloved Modoc. A shipwreck off the Indian coast and a sojourn with a maharajah were only the beginning of the pair’s incredible adventures. They battled bandits, armed revolutionaries, cruel animal trainers, and greedy circus owners in their quest to stay together. They triumphed against the odds and tickled American circus audiences with Modoc’s dazzling solo performances, only to be torn apart with brutal suddenness, seemingly never to meet again. Hollywood animal teacher Ralph Helfer rescued Modoc from ill-treatment and learned her astonishing tale when Bram rediscovered her at Helfer’s company. His emotional retelling of this right-life adventure epic will make pulses race and bring tears to readers’ eyes. –Wendy Smith
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What a disappointment to get into this “right tale” and learn it is a fictionalized account written on young adult level, with some graphic human and elephant sex thrown in towards the latter part of the book. It is a childish and silly piece of writing. Don’t bother with it. It is not more than standard. But, I did learn that this female Indian elephant had “long glorious tusks” that are (for some reason) really invisible in her photos.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Well, folks, I’m just finishing Ralph Helfer’s “Modoc: The Right Tale of the Greatest Elephant that Ever Lived.” It would be a fun work of fiction, if that were its humble aver. Touching, too, about the bond of like that can (truly) exist between humans and animals. But this book claims much more. It claims to be right, and that stretches things. Maybe a lot.
Now, don’t get me incorrect. I like fiction and I like biography; but they are two rather different genres. This leader left me continually wondering where THIS biography stopped and where fictionalizing selected up. Now that I’m at the end of the book, I marvel whether Bram, the source of the tale, suffered from Munchausen Syndrome-a psychological affliction characterized by compulsive lying, with the narrator serving as his own hero.
My point?-it’s about how much credibility we should assign to this tale. I don’t doubt that Modoc existed, that she was a remarkable animal, and that she and Bram had a remarkable bond. I have severe doubts about the tale of their incredible adventures in India and Burma. And persons doubts are further fueled by the leader’s innocent accceptance of Bram’s New Age-ish accounts of paranormal phenomena, including a night-visit with a swami-like figure and an invisible elephant swimming in an Indian lake.
I really like elephants. Permanently have. I’ll probably even like them more as a result of reading “Modoc.” But that does small to settle my suspicions about this appealing, uneven, and ultimately frustrating book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
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I liked the book, but am saddened that I bought it from a company that SELLS FUR. I am sick and sad that I ever gave Amazon a single dime. I am not the only one. Amazon execs should know that there are many more people out here who are offended at the butchering deaths of helpless animals for ridiculous VANITY, than there are people who would really go to amazon to buy their FUR COATS. I question that others please reconsider buying any more products from these people until they stop selling fur, and stop sending out cookie-cutter form letters to persons of us who give a damn about the lives of others. (No, it is not enough to aver that they’re merely trying to “give the customer what they want even if it offends some people. Would they say that if I wanted to buy heroin? If I wanted to buy a nuclear weapon? If I wanted to buy an Indonesian House Boy??? Not excellent enough. Some things are so blameworthy that society demands that they NOT sell them. Although, I’m sure that if they could, they would, so long as it was profitable.)
Take the profit out of death and join me in boycotting Amazon. And tell your friends. There are hundreds of additional sites that sell fantastic books, regularly cheaper, that do not profit from the deaths of innocent animals.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Yes, this was a gut-wrenching tale. The tale is a zigzag among hazards veteran by Modoc’s teacher (Bram) and Modoc the elephant, over a seventy-year time frame. For a tale labeled as “right” but; I was impressed that Modoc’s “thick tusks” as described in later chapters appear nowhere in the supposed pictures of Modoc herself. Having establish this inconsistency, in combination with the rather “Hollywood modernesque” writing style of the leader, I feel that the Modoc tale is probably not at all “right.” As a replacement for, I assume that the Modoc tale is but a tale… a compendium of a lot of right information about the horrid treatment of animals as redeemed in the eyes of the writer, by his fictitious character. I am still to some extent appalled that if the text of the book refers to “thick tusks” and “to some extent longer than a predictable female elephant would have…” then as an aspiring “fakir” the leader would at least make the pictures consonant with the text. I would rather have read a documentary on the theme as such. In fact I find it offensive that the leader would manipulate our emotions so readily under the guise of “truth.” I have no doubt that the hardships described (and worse) have been veteran by millions of performance-ensnared animals.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Although the tale is just sensational enough to make you want to keep reading it, it is obviously a work of fiction. If that part doesn’t bother you (and it may not) the enveloping Hindu/New Age philosophical passages can get tiresome pretty quick. Unnecessarily descriptive sex scenes (and threatened rape) also make this book inappropriate for younger readers. An appealing tale… but not a fantastic piece of literature.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5