The Camel's Hoof is about Earth. Most of us know we are doing damage to our environment and this book explains the origins and the extant of that damage through the fictional life of Maggie Smith. Maggie's story contrasts the industrial world's environment to that of the Amazon jungle as a backdrop to her struggles to find peace in her life. A peace that reconciles the modern with the primitive. It sets rules as what to and what not to do with focus always being the protection of a flourishing Earth.