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Product Description: A trainer shares true stories of famous lion, orangutan, and other animal actors that “will hold readers enthralled” (School Library Journal). They are major stars who do not speak a word onscreen, yet are world famous for their compelling performances...read more
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9781497643413 | Ingram Pub Services, September 23, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A trainer shares true stories of famous lion, orangutan, and other animal actors that “will hold readers enthralled” (School Library Journal).
9780759228740 | E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, May 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: THE BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS is a chronicle of many years Ralph Helfer spent as a Hollywood animal behaviorist, and is full of behindâtheâscenes accounts of the many television programs and films in which Helfer's animals appeared, including Charlie's Angels and The Ten Commandments, and the stars he and his animals worked with such as Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood, and Marilyn Monroe.
School and Library:
9780399254178 | Philomel Books, July 5, 2012, cover price $17.99
Miscellaneous:
9780061748288 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99
Chronicles the life and times of an elephant and her devoted companion and trainer, who journeyed from a small German circus town to international stardom in the Greatest Show on Earth to a tragic twenty-year separation
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9780060182571 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life and times of an elephant and her devoted companion and trainer, who journeyed from a small German circus town to international stardom in the Greatest Show on Earth to a tragic twenty-year separation
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9780060929510 | Perennial, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the life and times of an elephant and her devoted companion and trainer, who journeyed from a small German circus town to international stardom in the Greatest Show on Earth to a tragic twenty-year separation
Prebinding:
9781442006881 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $22.99
Hardcover:
9780874775167 | J P Tarcher, March 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author describes how he developed affection training, and recounts the lions, chimpanzees, bears, bulls, orangutans, elephants and tigers he has trained for motion pictures, television shows, and commercials
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9780061136788, titled "The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars" | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A noted Hollywood animal behaviorist describes how he developed affection training, and recounts the lions, chimpanzees, bears, bulls, orangutans, elephants, and tigers he has trained for motion pictures, television shows, and commercials.
9780874776256, titled "The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars" | Reprint edition (J P Tarcher, June 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The author describes how he developed affection training, and recounts the lions, chimpanzees, bears, bulls, orangutans, elephants and tigers he has trained for motion pictures, television shows, and commercials
School and Library:
9780399241901 | Philomel Books, March 16, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Born on the same day and raised together for years in the circus circuit, this true tale tells of the amazing bond between a talented elephant and a caring young boy who grew to become the star attraction in one of the greatest traveling circuses of all time.
Product Description: One day, Ralph Helfer, a celebrated animal behaviorist, received a surprising phone call. His close friends had found a young lion near death by the Zambezi River in Zambia and had rescued him and brought him back to the States. Ralph had often spoken of wanting to raise a lion from a young age -- he had been developing a philosophy of training animals based on love instead of fear, which he termed "affection training...read more
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9780060761325 | Harpercollins, July 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A Hollywood animal trainer recounts his adoption of a four-month-old African lion cub as part of a plan to institute more humane training practices, describing how his nurture-based program helped him forge a loving bond with the great cat and enabled better standards of care for performance animals.
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9780060761332 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 2006), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A Hollywood animal trainer recounts his adoption of a four-month-old African lion cub as part of a plan to institute more humane training practices, describing how his nurture-based program helped him forge a loving bond with the great cat and enabled better standards of care for performance animals.
9780060836276 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: One day, Ralph Helfer, a celebrated animal behaviorist, received a surprising phone call.
Prebinding:
9781435283596 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: One day, Ralph Helfer, a celebrated animal behaviorist, received a surprising phone call.
9781417773510 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, June 27, 2006), cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A Hollywood animal trainer recounts his adoption of a four-month-old African lion cub as part of a plan to institute more humane training practices, describing how his nurture-based program helped him forge a loving bond with the great cat and enabled better standards of care for performance animals.
Hardcover:
9780439293136 | Orchard Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the true story of a boy's devotion to a beloved circus elephant and the ordeals they endured to stay together.
Prebinding:
9780613162845 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: Chronicles the life and times of an elephant and her devoted companion and trainer, who journeyed from a small German circus town to international stardom in the Greatest Show on Earth to a tragic twenty-year separation
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