From chapters.ca:Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world. The Chinese discovered many marvellous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee- lin. This chee- lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before at the birth of Confucius. In a storybook in which each page evokes the richness of faraway places and long- ago days, James Rumford traces the chee- lins journey from Africa to Bengal to China, weaving a tale not just of a giraffe but of the people he meets along the way. Chee-lin is a story for all time: of captivity and struggle, friendship and respect.
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