How Long to Read Elephants & Kings

How Long Does it Take to Read Elephants & Kings?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 43 minutes to read Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

How long is Elephants & Kings?

Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann is 389 pages long, and a total of 100,751 words.

This makes it 131% the length of the average book. It also has 123% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Elephants & Kings Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 10 minutes to read Elephants & Kings aloud.

What Reading Level is Elephants & Kings?

Elephants & Kings is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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