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Woodrow Wilson Nickel died quietly and unnoticed on an ordinary day, an ordinary death, at a rather unusual age - 105 years. In an empty ward, a young nurse stopped in front of an old army chest, lifted the lid, expecting to find a faded military uniform and faded photographs, but saw ... a giraffe and dozens of bandaged stacks of notes - a mysterious trace of his long life:
I knew few true friends, and two of them were giraffes ...
1938. The Great Depression is dragging on. Hitler threatens Europe, and world-weary Americans are yearning for a miracle. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survived a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. Then - a twelve-day journey in a special truck from Southern California to the San Diego Zoo. At the wheel - a young brawler Woodrow Wilson.
"Westward with the Giraffes," a true-to-life story that weaves truth and fiction, brings together the world's first female zoo director, an old woman with a mysterious past, a young photographer with a secret, and villains.
What is it like to be transformed by the grace of amazing animals, the kindness of strangers, and the passage of time?