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A Training School for Elephants General Literature which aims to relieve theFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial era African expedition. 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