![]() ![]() North Bram stows away on the vessel transporting Modoc, leaving behind the girl of his dreams discovered, Bram wins over the captain, but the ship sinks during a hurricane Modoc and Bram float to the shores of India, where Bram learns further tools of the trade at the maharaja's elephantarium there he lives in a teak-built compound, tends to Modoc, and is honored to have an audience with the sacred white elephant he woos and wins a woman from the village but is warned that North is on his trail. That he does, and the tribulations and pleasures they share defy the imagination: The circus is sold out from under Bram to the sinister Mr. ![]() Their love for each other develops early, when Bram is just a toddler and Modoc a youthful one-ton package, and Bram's father on his deathbed councils Bram to watch after Modoc. ![]() They were born on the same day, a hundred years back, in a Black Forest village: Bram Gunterstein, son of a circus animal trainer, and Modoc, an Indian elephant headed for big-top life with the Wunderzircus, a provincial troupe. ![]() The simply astonishing, exhilarating story-complete with high adventure, betrayal, and resurrection-of Modoc, elephant extraordinaire, told by Helfer (The Beauty of the Beasts, 1990). ![]()
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