A Training School for Elephants | Sophy Roberts

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://booksreader.space/al-7133/A Africa audiobook for the moments during a slow Sunday with the atlas — exactly the kind of listen worth saving for the right hour. Press play and let it become the highlight of your day. Title: A Training School for Elephants Author: Sophy Roberts Narrator: Sophy Roberts Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins Release date: 02-20-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Africa Publisher's Summary: In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants — if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants. Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition.