{"id":190,"date":"2017-09-17T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=190"},"modified":"2024-02-17T07:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:17:43","slug":"book-review-modoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/book-review-modoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Modoc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Modoc<\/em>\u00a0by Ralph Helfer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SELSN7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a small German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant trainer, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each other. When the Wunderzircus was sold to an American, with no provision to take along the human staff, Bram stowed away on the ship to prevent being separated from his beloved Modoc. A shipwreck off the Indian coast and a sojourn with a maharajah were only the beginning of the pair\u2019s incredible adventures. Helfer\u2019s emotional retelling of this true-life adventure epic will make pulses race and bring tears to readers\u2019 eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SZsITt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"191\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/book-review-modoc\/book-modoc-51ihjjuvzpl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/book-modoc-51iHJJUVzpL.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"422,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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