Water For Elephants

Gruen Sara

$21.90
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 394 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. A Big Hearted Story Of A Travelling Circus During The Depression Of The Early 1930s In America.

Publishers Description: When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression.A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful equestrienne who is married to August, a charismatic but violently unpredictable animal trainer. Jacob also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable until he discovers an unusual way to reach her.Water for Elephants is a story that has it all - warmth, humour, poignancy and passion. It has an energy and spirit like the feeling under a big top when the show is abo

ISBN: 9781742374475

(164028)

394 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. A Big Hearted Story Of A Travelling Circus During The Depression Of The Early 1930s In America.



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