No one would believe that Hannibal's army might attempt the "impossible", that he could make the journey of 1,500 miles across the Alps, overland to Italy in 218 B.C. But he and his army did. In 1959, John Hoyte put together a team and set out to explore Hannibal's trip. This book is a humorous account of that expedition. And of course, he took a real elephant along.