Publisher’s binding for Frances Trego Montgomery’s On a Lark to the Planets (1904), the sequel to The Wonderful Electric Elephant.
Featured on PDR in the essay Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion
On September 15, 1885, twenty-five years after his capture in Sudan, Jumbo the elephant tragically died when struck by a freight train. Ross Bullen takes us on a spectral journey through other collisions between elephant and machine — in adventure novels, abandoned roadside hotels, and psychic science — revealing latent anxieties at the century’s turn.
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Publisher’s binding for Frances Trego Montgomery’s On a Lark to the Planets (1904), the sequel to The Wonderful Electric Elephant.
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1904
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On a Lark to the Planets
