Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top

An Epic Read

This is an epic story. I adored this book. So will you. If you love animals and even if you are indifferent this book is just objectively good. I have read two of Bradley's books and she has a way of telling the story of an entire industry, the history, the changes it has been through, the good side the bad side and the ugly through the life of one animal. Every page is not about Billie, not even every chapter. It's She uses Billie through bench marks to tell the tale of how the circus started, how the abuse began, how the this country thought of circuses as the height of entertainment and how that started to change when some of the abuses were exposed. It's a story not just about elephants but about people . People at their worst and at their best. It's about villains and heroes, and the people in between. It's about the fight for justice and what's right and what's wrong. It's about an animal on this earth that is so good that humans don't deserve her, and that for every person out to destroy that goodness are the selfless people who pick up the pieces. It's about the people who fight to save these animals from the ugliest industry (or one of them) and have dedicated their life to righting the wrongs of others. They take in these animals who are so broken and give them the life they have always deserved to live in as close to freedom as they ever can after the life they have lived. She tells the side of the circus, and some circus animal trainers that saw that there was a another way and used it to change the world and with it the life of so many elephants. Of course, there are still circuses in America, audiences still choose to go--but that crowd is dwindling. Hopefully this story will help all animals to escape the Big Top forever. If you don't know anything about elephants this story will astound you. They have all of the good qualities of humans and very few of the bad. I can't think of anything more entertaining to watch and hear about and read about. Thi...