Watch The Book Trailer For Sophy Roberts’s Bestselling A Training School For Elephants.

Literary Hub is pleased to stock nan book trailer for Sophy Roberts’s A Training School for Elephants, a nonfiction book that tells of cruelty, deception and escapade during nan European Scramble for Africa. A Training School for Elephants was an instant Sunday Times bestseller erstwhile it was published earlier this twelvemonth successful nan UK, and will beryllium published successful nan US by Atlantic Monthly Press connected April 22.

Here’s a explanation of nan book from nan publisher, Atlantic Monthly Press:

In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an eager scheme to plunder Africa’s resources. The cardinal to cracking unfastened nan continent, aliases truthful he thought, was its elephants—if only he could train them. And truthful he commissioned nan charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to vessel 4 tamed Asian elephants from India to nan East African coast, wherever they were marched inland towards Congo. The eventual purpose was to found a training schoolhouse for African elephants.

Following successful nan footsteps of nan 4 elephants, Roberts pieces together nan communicative of this long-forgotten expedition, successful travels that return her to Belgium, Iraq, India, Tanzania, and Congo. The storytelling brings to life a compelling formed of historical characters and modern voices, from ivory dealers to Catholic nuns, group against rich | descriptions of nan landscapes travelled. In an original weave of past and present, she digs heavy into historical records revealing an extraordinary—and enduring—story of assemblage greed, hypocrisy, and folly.

And here’s nan trailer:

You tin preorder nan book here.