Elephant Run
Author: Roland Smith
In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick’s mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family’s teak plantation.,,But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in the remote Burmese elephant village…..Read More
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