Mark Shand had already learned about the ways of elephants after riding his beloved Tara across India, but he is no match for the daughter of India's greatest expert on the Asian elephant, Parbati Barua, known as "queen of the elephants. Shand rides with Parbati the elephants' ancient migratory route through the tea gardens of West Bengal and along the rarely visited Himalayan corridor to her ancestral home in Assam. They were accompanied by Aditya Patankar, whose photographs in this book accompany Shand's account of his quest for a solution to the problem of conserving the Asian elephant.

Elephants, India, Mahout