My Travels with Clara

My Travels with Clara PDF Author: Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368808
Category : Indian rhinoceros
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the centerpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museums exhibition Oudrys Painted Menagerie. In her honor, the Getty has produced this book for children that tells the true story of this 5,000-pound animal and her owner, an 18-century Dutch sea captain. Full color.

My Travels with Clara

My Travels with Clara PDF Author: Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368808
Category : Indian rhinoceros
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the centerpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museums exhibition Oudrys Painted Menagerie. In her honor, the Getty has produced this book for children that tells the true story of this 5,000-pound animal and her owner, an 18-century Dutch sea captain. Full color.

Clara's Grand Tour

Clara's Grand Tour PDF Author: Glynis Ridley
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.

Clara

Clara PDF Author: Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0553522469
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Book Description
"A rhinoceros tours Europe in the mid-18th century and becomes a sensation--based on a true story"--

Clara the Rhino

Clara the Rhino PDF Author: Katrin Hirt
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735843950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Based on the true story and friendship between an orphaned rhino and a sea captain in the mid-18th century. When a baby rhino is orphaned in India with nowhere to go, a gentle sea captain from Holland—Douwe van der Meer—decides to take her to Europe with him. Clara wins the hearts of everyone—from villagers to princes, kings, and queens who have never seen a rhino before. All are delighted by the gentle giant—whose image soon appears on posters, coins, and statuettes, until the fine day when the Dutch Captain gives Clara her a home of her own.

Knitlandia

Knitlandia PDF Author: Clara Parkes
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613129394
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
The renowned knitter and author of The Yarn Whisperer spins tales of a creative life enriched by world travel in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In Knitlandia, Parkes invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, through seventeen of her most memorable journeys across the globe. Her knitting adventures span from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently volume that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively.

The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo

The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo PDF Author: Ambrosio Bembo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520249399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Book Description
"This work makes an important contribution. . . . It also introduces a fascinating young observer from Venice full of humor and curiosity about everything."—Oleg Grabar, author of The Formation of Islamic Art

A Giraffe Goes to Paris

A Giraffe Goes to Paris PDF Author: Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761455950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris

Shopping with Clara

Shopping with Clara PDF Author: Beth Krietzman
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN: 9781592988730
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
When Beth, a germaphobe with dyslexia and anxiety, is matched up as a volunteer for Clara, a quirky elderly woman, the simple task of shopping turns into a complex commitment. Clara is funny, smart, and often stubborn, and Beth finds herself wondering if perhaps Clara's life is a glimpse into her own future. This journal is their story, of two unusual people brought together by chance and the unforgettable friendship that changes both their lives.

Oudry's Painted Menagerie

Oudry's Painted Menagerie PDF Author: Mary Morton
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368896
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Book Description
In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.

If...

If... PDF Author: Sarah Perry
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892363216
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Illustrations present such imaginative possibilities as worms with wheels, caterpillar toothpaste, and whales in outer space.