Details about West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
West with Giraffes – A passionate, awakening novel propelled by the unimaginable genuine story of two giraffes who stood out as truly newsworthy and won the hearts of Depression-period America.
“Barely any obvious companions have I known and two were giraffes… ”
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing endlessly. However, when he learns giraffes are going wiped out, he ends up reviewing the extraordinary experience he can’t keep a secret forever.
It’s 1938. The Great Depression waits. Hitler is compromising Europe, and world-fatigued Americans long for wonder. They discover it in two giraffes who wonderfully endure a tropical storm while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day excursion in a custom truck to convey Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. In the driver’s seat is the youthful Dust Bowl unruly Woodrow. Motivated by evident occasions, the story weaves genuine figures with anecdotal ones, including the world’s first female zoo chief, a dried up elderly person with a previous, a youthful female picture taker with a mystery, and grouped criminals as inconsistent as the giraffes.
Part experience, part chronicled adventure, and part transitioning romantic tale, West with Giraffes investigates being changed by the beauty of creatures, the generosity of outsiders, the progression of time, and a story told before it’s past the point of no return.