Experience the rhythm of life within an elephant family. Journey with Lua as she leads her family along the interwoven paths that she shares with humans and other animals as they confront a land on the brink of collapse. Both fiction and nonfiction, Knowing Wonder: An Elephant Story invites you to explore the world of elephants within the context of real behavior and events connected with scientific insight into their inner lives. Know the family’s intimacy in birth and death, joy and sorrow. As Lua navigates the seasons of her life, she will challenge you to change the way you see her and the world. You will never look at elephants the same.
Knowing Wonder by Merrill Sapp with illustrations by Gareth Hook
ISBN: 9781634050692
Publication Date: 1/14/2025
Pages: 142
Size: 6(w) x 9(h) x 0.5(d) in
Type: Paperback
Language: English
Merrill Sapp is a cognitive psychologist, physician assistant, professor, and student of nature. She has traveled the world to learn about and work in the service of elephants. As a cognitive psychologist, she explores elephants' experience of the world to show how they respond to their surroundings and their surroundings respond back. Her writing has appeared in About Place Journal, Ecological Citizen, Earth Island Journal, and Mongabay News. She teaches at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Gareth Hook grew up on a remote farm in Zimbabwe and learned at an early age the unique, sometimes hostile ways of the untamed world. His education, including a fine arts degree from Rhodes University, South Africa, led to his passion for painting, drawing, and capturing the essence of the African animal. Gareth’s close affinity with the natural world informs his subject matter, and he has made generous donations of his artwork to support conservation and anti-poaching efforts in Zimbabwe.