Execution by elephant July 21, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Ancient, Medieval, Modern
And so begins Elephant Week – for the next seven evenings an article will be given over to the freakish fringe history of the largest land mammal. First of all, this extraordinary passage from the work of Louis Rousselet, India and its Native Princes (1882). In chapter ten of India – first published as L’Inde des Rajahs: [...]
