Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250068649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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in 1966 as a four-year-old. Department of Agriculture over her ultimate fate, and of Billie’s eventual adjustment to a life of freedom, Bradley’s newest (after Saving Gracie, 2010) has produced a well-researched winner. Meanwhile, two former elephant trainers had grown disenchanted with circuses and the distorted lives that circus elephants lived, and they decided to found a sanctuary for former performing elephants in Tennessee. Although she learned difficult tricks and was a star, Billie rebelled and began to be known as a difficult elephant, gaining a reputation for attacking her trainers. From Booklist *Starred Review* Like the majority of captive elephants, Billie was captured as a calf, surfacing in the U.S. --Nancy Bent . The story of how Billie got to the Elephant Sanctuary, an
Last Chain touches the heart Jessica Lynn I could not put this book down. Carol did an amazing job of explaining the history of elephants in captivity and Billie's journey through it all. I heard of this book through The Elephant Sanctuary, as I love to visit their website and watch the Ele-Cams. This book made me laugh. Gkimberly said Many tears, few of joy. I have to confess, I'm a sucker for punishment and I read a lot of books on animal welfare and I particularly love stories about elephants. Most of my reading has been with African based tales, but I thought I would enjoy this story as well. I did enjoy it very much, it is loade. PNV said An Excellent Document on the Lives Circus Elephants in Captivity Must Endure. Earlier this year at a circus protest I was participating in, a woman who stopped for a traffic light in front of me looked out her window at my "The Circus: No Fun for Animals" poster I was holding and asked me "Why are you protesting this circus and why is it no fun for animal
She lives in Montana with her family. She studied animal law at Harvard University, where she was one of two dozen journalists worldwide chosen in 2003 to spend a year as a Nieman Fellow. . CAROL BRADLEY is an award-winning former newspaper reporter and the author of the critically praised Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills
For twenty-three years she dazzled audiences, but she lived a life of neglect and abuse. As years passed, Billie rebelled. Billie mastered difficult stunts: she could balance on her hind legs, walk on her front legs and perform one-foot handstands. The U.S. At 19, she was sold and groomed for life in the circus. When she attacked and injured her trainer, a federal inspector ordered her taken off the road. Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her life surrounded by her family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. Department of Agriculture removed Billie and fifteen other elephants as part of the largest elephant rescue in American history. Billie spent her first years confined in a tiny zoo yard giving rides to children. Billie wound up at a sanctuary for performing elephants in Tennessee at 45, but she thundered with anxiety in her new environment and refused to let anyone remove a chain still clamped around her leg. Finally, fate intervened. For a decade she languished in a dusty barn. Last Chain on Billie charts the growing movement to rescue performing elephants from lives of misery, and tells the story of how one emotionally da