![]() ![]() The thing is, Helfer bills it as a true story (while acknowledging some poetic license). Sure, the dialect is sappy sweet, sure there are more ridiculous coincidences in one chapter than in all of Shakespeare's plays, and sure, it's downright predictable at times, but it's a story. Helfer isn't a professional author, he's a man conveying a story about a topic that he is passionate about. No, the writing isn't very good, but that can be excused - Mr. If Modoc were to be presented to the reader as fiction - something along the lines of Life of Pi - I would have been okay with it. Their bond is meant to be a life-long one, and nothing - not cruel circus owners, not murderous terrorists, and not even a sinking ship can keep the two apart for long. Bram is born to train elephants and Modoc is born to be a circus star. Not only did his wife give birth to a long-prayed for baby boy, Bram, but Emma, his star attraction elephant, delivered a calf - a female named "Modoc." Modoc, told by veteran animal trainer Ralph Helfer, is the story of those two children, raised as siblings, and the life they shared. On a winter day in Germany at the dawn of the last century, circus trainer Josef Gunterstein had the best day ever. Just in time for April Fool's Day, our latest book review. ![]() ![]() Something we humans wouldn't understand, but they know the ways of Man.'" They have something happening in their heads. It is said that one in every ten thousand elephants is special. "'Well, son, this was no ordinary elephant. ![]()
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