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Barbara Gowdy, The White Bone (HarperCollins Canada, 1998; Barbara Gowdy creates an intense and complex culture for African elephants, replete with ritual and mythology, in The White Bone Mud is an adoptive member of the She-S's family, a matriarchal group of "she-ones," the universal term in her language for all elephants. All adult cows are given a name such as "She-Scares" or "She-Soothes" while bulls retain their birth name and leave the herd upon maturity. Mud is a visionary, capable of seeing events occurring either in the future or in the present but at a distance. Her best friend is Date Bed, a near-sighted cow calf who is a "mind talker." Date Bed can communicate with all other species except for snakes, insects and "hindleggers" the elephants' term for human beings. Up until now, life has been pleasant relatively uncomplicated as she and her family roam the Domain (a portion of Africa), but things are changing. Drought makes food and water scarce, and ivory hunters are slaughtering the pachyderm families. The only hope for the she-ones, it would seem, is contingent upon a magical white bone which is supposed to point the way to a Safe Place. After Mud's family is attacked, she and the survivors begin the search for the bone, and for Date Bed, who has been separated from the family. Gowdy has woven a remarkable story around these creatures. She doesn't sugarcoat her story; rather, she is uncompromising in describing the sickening brutality of the hindleggers. Her careful research is evident in her development of mythology, rituals and traditions for the she-ones, not to mention language. A glossary is provided before the narrative begins and is essential reading for better comprehension; it is there, for example, that one learns that to have "trunk" is to have deep spiritual understanding. Furthermore, she gives them a sense of story, possibly one of the greatest of all attributes.

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@import url(../coon.css); K E T H E R I A N's C O O N The White Bone This book was recommended to me by Fred Patten. At first I was a little surprised to find it in the general fiction section of my book store. This is the story of Mud, and her family. They are elephants living in an every shrinking habitat. Humans are their primary creditors. They, their rifles and their fences are changing the elephant's world at a pace too fast for these massive beasts to understand. The book is written primarily from Mud's point of view, sharing her throughout and visions throughout the tail. The reviews call it a story of a quest, whereas I would call it the story of survival. It takes a few pages to get use to the characters' names and their way of talking. Then the book gets interesting. Elephants don't forget. They share a sort of racial memory that dims before they were born and seems almost to stretch until after they die. A few dreamers can see the future, but it is only in very troubling glances. Mud is one such dreamer. They can live in the past and the present simultaneously. This, the book explains, is often what they are doing when they appear to physically be doing nothing. The book covers several mating periods, mostly in flashbacks. It even spends some time being told from Tall Time's (the Link Bull) and Date Bed's point of view. It shows how other creatures in the environment are seen by the Elephants; some are as intelligent, others are not. This variation in species and abilities is a rare trait for a furry book.

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