Author | Robert Standish |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Publisher | Peter Davies (UK) Macmillan (US) |
Publication date | 1948 |
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Elephant Walk is a 1948 novel by Robert Standish, a pen name of the British writer Digby George Gerahty. It is set on a tea plantation in the British colony of Ceylon.
It was the basis of the 1954 Hollywood film Elephant Walk directed by William Dieterle and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Dana Andrews and Peter Finch. [1]
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