God's Elephants by Michael Tod

Michael Tod’s most recent novel set in the dramatic mountains and plains of East Africa.When the young female elephant, Temba Kidogo and her Grandfather, the wise old Tembo M’zee, are inspired to climb Kilimanjaro and seek the sacred tusks of the legendary Tembo Jay, they have no idea of the events their action will trigger.Joined by an ever-growing company of other elephants as they carry the tusks across the plains of Africa to The Place of Peace, they face man-made and natural hazards and have to use every ounce of their resourcefulness to overcome these. The hunter, Walt Schwiner, and his disgraced Maasai guide, Moses, are determined to capture the sacred tusks whilst a Bushman and his friends, both human and elephant try to prevent this.The final scenes in the Place of Peace, the traditional elephants’ graveyard, lead to unexpected results that alter the way both humans and elephants live in the future.