The Tusk That Did the Damage

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him.

He was on the other bank with his mother. He was not here'When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting.

Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. A heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect.

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