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The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
Amelia Thomas
A Story of Survival from the West Bank
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May 2008
On Sale: April 21, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 1586484893
EAN: 9781586484897
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Non-Fiction
The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street
in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very
edge of the West Bank. The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues
shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods in
solitary confinement; walls bear the pockmarks of gunfire.
And yet the zoo is an extraordinary place, with a bizarre,
troubling and inspiring story to tell. At the center of this
story is Dr. Sami Khader, the only zoo veterinarian in the
Palestinian territories. Family man, amateur inventor, and
dedicated taxidermist, he is fiercely independent,
apolitical, and resourceful in times of crisis. Dr. Sami
dreams of transforming the zoo into one of an international
caliber. In The Zoo on the Road to Nablus, Amelia Thomas brings the
reader into a world rarely glimpsed from the outside,
weaving the stories of the zoo's animals, its staff, and its
visitors into a rich, colorful chronicle of the
indomitability of the human—and animal—spirit.
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