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Jumbo (Paperback, Reissue)
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Jumbo (Paperback, Reissue)
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Price R193
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The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity
animals who gave us one of our favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian
England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan,
imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where - for
seventeen years - he dutifully gave children rides and ate buns
from their hands, all the while being tortured at night to keep him
docile. Worldwide fame came when he was bought by the American
showman and scam artist P.T. Barnum in 1881, despite letters from
100,000 British schoolchildren who wrote to Queen Victoria begging
her to prevent the sale. Barnum went on to transform Jumbo into a
lucrative circus act and one of the most loved animals of all time,
establishing elephants as a regular feature of funhouses and
menageries the world over. Using the heartwrenching story of
Jumbo's celebrity life, tragic death in Canada in 1885, and his
enduring cultural legacy, Jumbo is personal and fascinating
reflection on our cultural elephantiasis by one of our most
distinguished literary-critical detectives, which is guaranteed to
amuse, stimulate, provoke and delight in equal measure.
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