Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007278176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A chance to meet Noddy's Toy Town friends one by one in this ongoing, collectable Noddy & Friends series. This time Mr Jumbo, Toy Town's trusty old elephant is having his turn.
Author: Paul Chambers
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1586421530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. Every day tens of thousands of people would visit this adored animal known as “the Children’s Pet” or, more simply, “the Giant Elephant,” at the London Zoo. When P.T. Barnum purchased him for his Greatest Show on Earth, Jumbo’s transport to the U.S. made headlines for weeks, and he was an instant sensation in America. His name entered our lexicon as an adjective for oversized things, and half a century after his death his still-famous and unrivalled popularity was the inspiration for Walt Disney’s Dumbo. But fame comes at a price and, like so many modern celebrities, Jumbo led a troubled private life that was far from idyllic. His best friend – a zookeeper named Matthew Scott, who remained by Jumbo’s side in Britain and the United States for twenty years – was moody and manipulative, and Jumbo himself attracted rumors of violent tantrums, a fondness for drink, and of a “wife” he left behind in order to make it big in America. From an eyewitness account of Jumbo’s capture in Africa after ivory hunters had killed his parents, to his early years at the Paris zoo where he was mistreated and regarded as a disappointing runt, to his stunning growth spurt in London where he became the largest elephant in captivity, to the “Jumbo craze” that swept across Britain and the United States, Paul Chambers utilizes new archival material in fully telling Jumbo’s story for the first time.
Author: American Poland-China Record Association
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1092
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur Sketchley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 3385411874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
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