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Author:

Martin, Andrew, 1962-

Title:

Flight by elephant : the untold story of World War Two's most daring jungle rescue / Andrew Martin.

Publisher:

Fourth Estate,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiv, 322 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mackrell, Gyles.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
Animals--History.--History.
Elephants--Burma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-310) and index.

Summary:

A decorated veteran of the Royal Flying Corps, Mackrell was a tea plantation overseer in his mid-fifties, with a taste for adventure. Hearing that the Chaukan party was stranded by the monsoon, he knew of only one way to save the fever-weakened and starving refugees. Mackrell undertook a rescue mission given no chance of success by the authorities. The astonishing true story of a middle-aged tea planter, Gyles Mackrell, who mounted an epic rescue mission, with the aid of a herd of elephants and their mahouts.

ISBN:

0007461526
9780007461523

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)