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A Training School for Elephants SS_Gift_Guide the wife of a missingOut of a sidelined, colonial era expedition in Africa comes a new history of cruelty, deception and adventure from the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of SiberiaIn 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africas resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephantsif only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed