Cover of Papa Tembo

Book 1998

Papa Tembo

1 readers

Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Language
English
Published
1998
  • Poaching
  • Elephants
  • Revenge
  • Fiction
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Elephants, fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Tanzania, fiction

Left with a maimed leg after being trampled by a terrified elephant calf running from the massacre of its herd, an embittered poacher's vow to destroy the now grown animal is countered by a young girl's determination to protect the elephant at all cost.