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The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Thomas Dunne Books
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
256 pages ISBN: 0312358326 EAN: 9780312358327 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony
could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo,
located in the city center and caught in the war's
crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that
full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly
all the animals of the zoo.
But not all of them. U.S. soldiers had taken the time to
help care for the remaining animals, and the zoo's staff had
returned to work in spite of the constant firefights.
Together the Americans and Iraqis had managed to keep alive
the animals that had survived the invasion.
Babylon's Ark chronicles the zoo's transformation from
bombed-out rubble to peaceful park. Along the way, Anthony
recounts hair-raising efforts to save a pride of the
dictator's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, and
rescue Saddam's Arabian horses. His unique ground-level
experience makes Babylon's Ark an uplifting story of both
sides working together for the sake of innocent animals
caught in the war's crossfire.
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