Mighty Mary

By: Max Davine

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Paperback | 5 December 2018

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450 Pages

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Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went.

In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, acts against Mary the five-ton Indian elephant would go down in history as one of the most disturbing bizarre cases of animal cruelty the world has ever seen.

But, Mary had a life before the circus. She was free once. Part of a wild herd.

During the British Raj, she was captured, trained and sent to America to become a spectacle. Along the way, she loved, she lost, she made friends and formed bonds. She suffered heartache and experienced ecstasy. She was a living being.

This is her story.

Industry Reviews

A gripping tale that hits the mark on two levels........it tells a great yarn about the challenges of circus life and,..........evokes tremendous empathy for the plight of animals exploited by humans for their entertainment value.

By Professor Gary Smith of Deakin University

In the tradition of Sewell’s Black Beauty and London’s White Fang, this book examines through an animal’s eyes the incomprehensibility of human cruelty, as well as its cost – not only to the victim, but to the perpetrator. Mighty Mary is a poignant and compelling call for compassion.

Author Laura Goodin

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