![]() ![]() Various episodes and encounters happen on their 12-day journey. The main characters are Dust Bowl Rowdy Woodrow, a young female photographer, an old zookeeper and the first female zoo director. ![]() The novel contains fictional and real-life figures. He is terrified that his tale won’t be told, especially as, at that time, giraffes were facing extinction. The narrator, Woodrow Wilson Nickel, aged 105, is desperate to write his story before he succumbs to dementia. ![]() They were on their way to San Diego Zoo in California. Two giraffes miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic and end up in New York. In 1938, America was looking for a feel-good tale to help them through the threat of Hitler in Europe and the continuing Great Depression. West with Giraffes is a heart-warming novel based on a true story. ![]()
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