Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin

Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris

Michael Allin

224 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from wh...

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