![]() ![]() Bram is to be left behind as Modoc and the other animals are moved to America.īut Bram can’t leave Mo. But then reality catches up and the owner of the circus where Modoc performs with her elephant family sells everything to an American circus owner. ![]() The two grew up together, and the pastoral idyll of this portion of the book is almost painfully innocent and sweet – it did, for me, get a bit saccharine, especially when Gerdie comes into the picture and she, Bram, and Mo spend summertime frolicking through the hedgerows and splish-splashing in the lakes. Mo and Bram were born on the same day, in the same hour, on the farm owned by Bram’s elephant-trainer father, near the Black Forest in Germany. ![]() It’s a story about a man named Bram Gunterstein and the three loves of his life: the two women he loved, Sian and Gerdie, and the elephant, a female Indian pachyderm named Modoc. Most love stories are cheesy to one extent or another, and this is, most definitely, a love story. That doesn’t have to be a problem, of course. This is a very sweet book, an amazing story about a remarkable elephant. Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived ![]()
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