by Michael Allin · Trafalgar Square · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747262091
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«Zarafa» is the historical account by Michael Allin, published by Trafalgar Square in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the true story of Zarafa, a Maasai giraffe given as a gift to King Charles X of France in 1826. Michael Allin narrates the giraffe's journey from the plains of Africa to Paris and the wonder it aroused in a France emerging from the Napoleonic era, where its presence inspired fashions and fascination in the society of the time.
The edition was published on August 5, 1999. It is a work of non-fiction framed within nineteenth-century European history and biography.
A book for those interested in European history, especially nineteenth-century France, and in true stories of animals and journeys.
