In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France : A Chronicle of Giraffomania, 1826-1845

Lebleu, Olivier/ Hahn, Cynthia T. (TRN)

Rowman & Littlefield（2020/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781538142233
• DDC分類 599.6380944

Full Description

This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. "Zarafa," taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to Paris, was accompanied by her Arab handlers and a famous French naturalist. She drew vast crowds along her route, sparking a giraffomania that was widely documented in art and literature. Her initial journey and then long and celebrated residence in Paris encapsulates nineteenth-century French socio-political history and highlights the emerging evolutionary theories of the time. Over fifty illustrations from the period illuminate this rare encounter with a unique animal that is now endangered and deserving of our greater attention and understanding.

Contents

AUTHOR'S NOTE
FOREWORD BY BRUCE D. PATTERSON
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 THE GIRAFFE BEFORE ZARAFA: A Polymorphous Monster
2 ILLUSTRIOUS GODPARENTS: A Predestined Animal
3 THE PASHA'S GIFT: Diplomacy at Stake
4 ZARAFA IN FRANCE: A Royal Triumph
5 THE ANIMAL UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS: An Aberration of Nature
6 BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: An Animal at a Price
7 TRADE AND GIRAFFOMANIA: Marketing Materials
8 POLITICAL CARICATURE: A Satirical Weapon
9 ZARAFA'S LEGACY: An Existential Fable
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR