In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus.
In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus. But a hundred years later an American academic feels the boy may have invented the elephant as the only kind and uplifting being in dark times.
- | Author: Paul Pickering
- | Publisher: Salt Publishing
- | Publication Date: Jul 30, 2021
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781784632250
- | ISBN-10: 1784632252
- Author:
- Paul Pickering
- Publisher:
- Salt Publishing
- Publication Date:
- Jul 30, 2021
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN-13:
- 9781784632250
- ISBN10:
- 1784632252