{"product_id":"elephant-story-jumbo-and-p-t-barnum-under-the-big-top-9780786406326","title":"Elephant Story: Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Les Harding\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The newspapers called him \"Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon,\" \"Behemoth of Holy Writ\" and \"Prodigious Mountain.\" He was the main event at the greatest show on earth: Jumbo, at around 6-1\/2 tons and almost 12 feet tall, the biggest elephant anyone had ever seen. Jumbo's mere presence in the Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus guaranteed an additional $3,000 a day in box office receipts. More of an exhibit than a performer, Jumbo was simply paraded around the three rings. But still the people came, just to marvel at the size of this monster pachyderm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This work traces Jumbo's capture in East Africa, his life in the London Zoo, the controversy over his sale for $10,000 to American showman P.T. Barnum, his journey across the Atlantic, his life as the most famous attraction in Barnum's circus, and his tragic death in a railway accident in Canada in 1885.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614519935127,"sku":"9780786406326","price":1925.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786406326.webp?v=1775094326","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/elephant-story-jumbo-and-p-t-barnum-under-the-big-top-9780786406326","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}