Silverhair

First edition with original title
(publ. Millennium)

Silverhair is a 1999 Stephen Baxter science-fiction novel and the first book of The Mammoth Trilogy. An omnibus edition, incorporating all three novels of this series, was published as Behemoth (2004).

This story is about a female Mammoth named Silverhair. On an isolated Russian island near the Arctic Circle a clan of intelligent mammoths have survived the Ice age and into the modern day, though their numbers are dwindling as the climate warms. A group of humans come ashore and start hunting the mammoths and the herd tries to escape, and then to fight back. The mammoths are depicted as having near human intelligence and an oral culture that goes back millions of years.