The giraffes survive and are quarantined before the long trek to California. As the transport ship neared New York City a disastrous hurricane nearly sinks it, and the rhino is lost.
“West With Giraffes” is an unforgettable novel of adventure, unrequited love, and the spirit of America during the bleakest period of its existence.īelle Benchley, the first-ever female zoo director who runs the San Diego Zoo, has managed to procure two giraffes and a rhino from Africa. Lynda Rutledge has delivered a wonderful, bittersweet coming-of-age novel designed to celebrate hope in a hopeless world. He begins to write a journal of an eventful trip he took with a young pair so many decades ago. This includes giraffes, which so much of his growing up depended on. Now at the age of 105, Woody is in a VA center where he has become aware of the near extinction of so much wildlife because of the ever-increasing human population taking over their habitat.
It was 1938, the Great Depression had taken hope from the nation and if that wasn't bad enough, the Dust Bowl era added to the despair. When 17-year-old Woodrow Wilson Nickel buried the last of his family, he struck out from his Texas panhandle home to find his cousin in New York City.
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