An Elephant for Aristotle
- An Elephant for Aristotle
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name = An Elephant for Aristotle
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration for "An Elephant for Aristotle"
author = L. Sprague deCamp
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cover_artist = Alice Smith
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1958
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 360 pp
asin = :B0007DQ5S6
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"An Elephant for Aristotle", is a 1958 historical novel by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardback by Doubleday, and in paperback by Curtis in 1971. It is the first of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and third chronologically.
The novel concerns the adventures of a Thessalian cavalry commander who has been tasked by Alexander the Great to bring an elephant captured from an Indian ruler, Porus, to Athens as a present for Alexander's old tutor, Aristotle.
The journey is long and adventurous, involving frequent skirmishes with bandits, unruly noblemen, Macedonian commanders with ideas of their own about who's in charge, and a runaway Persian noblewoman.
References
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=51 | date=1983
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