Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Walker & Company, August 1998. Hardcover. 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 where she..... More