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Elephant Story - Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top (Paperback)
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Elephant Story - Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top (Paperback)
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The newspapers called him "Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon, "
"Behemoth of Holy Writ" and "Prodigious Mountain." He was the main
event at the greatest show on earth: Jumbo, at around 61/2 tons and
almost 12 feet tall, the biggest elephant anyone had ever seen.
Jumbos mere presence in the Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus
guaranteed an additional $3,000 a day in box office receipts. More
of an exhibit than a performer, Jumbo was simply paraded around the
three rings. But still the people came, just to marvel at the size
of this monster pachyderm. This work traces Jumbos capture in East
Africa, his life in the London Zoo, the controversy over his sale
for $10,000 to American showman P.T. Barnum, his journey across the
Atlantic, his life as the most famous attraction in Barnums circus,
and his tragic death in a railway accident in Canada in 1885.
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