Author: HOLMES, MARY TAVENER
Title: My Travels with Clara
Description: Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. Hard cover. ISBN: 0892368802. Illustrated by Jon Cannell. Color Illustrations; 11 1/4 x 8 3/4; Unpaginated pages; Oblong shaped hard cover has a rust red spine with brown lettering. Slight rubbing to boards. No DJ as issued. Pages not numbered; 32 pages. Ilustrated with color pictures. Pages are clean and tight. A delightful true life story of a traveling rhinoceros. 'A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the massive centerpiece of the Getty Museum's exhibition "Oudry's Painted Menagerie". In her honour, the Getty has produced "My Travels with Clara", a picture book for children that tells the true story of this five-thousand-pound animal and her owner, an eighteenth-century Dutch sea captain. "My Travels with Clara" begins in India, where Clara was born, and follows this amazing animal and her owner through their exploits in Berlin (where she met Frederick the Great) , Paris (where she was a sensation and inspired rhinoceros hairdos) , Versailles (where she met Louis XV and had her portrait painted) , Rome (where she lost her horn) , and finally Venice (where Clara joined in the annual Carnival).'. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

Keywords: 0892368802 Juvenile History; Children's Literature Juvenile Animal Stories; Biography; Wild Life; India; Rhinoceros; 18th Century World History; Transportation History; Juvenile Royalty Cultural History Animals Education European History History Geography