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Word: komoonl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith of stay-at-homes. But he has written one of the most absorbing adventure stories in many a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elephants in the Raw | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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