Jumbo

Hardcover 224 pages, written by Paul Chambers This being the true story of the greatest elephant in the world. 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 at the Paris zoo where he became the largest elephant in captivity, to the "Jumbo Craze" that swept across Britain and the United Statees, Pual Chambers utilizes new archival material in fully telling Jumbo's story for the first time.