In films like Grizzly Man , Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo , Werner Herzog has been drawn to obsessive men whose hubris tricks them into believing they can tame nature, only to find nature resistant to human control. South African conservation biologist Dr. Steve Boyes is a worthy addition to that canon of driven eccentrics, his background in environmental science never excluding the philosophical and spiritual reflections of an unabashed dreamer.

In Ghost Elephants , Herzog accompanies Boyes to a remote highland plateau in Angola in search of a possibly mythical herd of giant elephants, which turns out to be exactly what you want the peripatetic, eternally curious German iconoclast to be doing.

In films like Grizzly Man , Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitz

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