Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe - Glynis Ridley - Google Books

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In 1741, an enterprising Dutch sea captain transported a young, female Indian rhinoceros from Assam to Europe where she was displayed before everyone from peasants to princes. In an age before railways and modern roads, the three-ton Clara traveled in an…