"While a decent study, the book is important more for its insight into the mind of the author than in its own right, elephants being a lifelong interest of de Camp's that figures in many of his other literary works.In his early time travel novel "Lest Darkness Fall" his protagonist Martin Padway pens a similar monograph, while in his historical novel "An Elephant for Aristotle" details the difficulties in transporting an elephant from India to Greece during ancient times.