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Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian time. Every day tens of thousands of men and women would visit this adored animal known as "the Children's Dog or cat" at the London Zoo. When P.T. Barnum purchased him for his Greatest Show on the planet, Jumbo's transportation to america made headlines for weeks. In THE UNITED STATES, Jumbo became an instantaneous discomfort, and his name inserted our lexicon as an adjective for oversized things. A 50 % century after his death his still-famous and unrivalled level of popularity was the motivation for Walt Disney's Dumbo. But the history behind the story is more gripping than one could possibly visualize. Jumbo's moving and remarkably complex romance with a junior zookeeper known as Matthew Scott is told here for the first time using newly uncovered archival materials, including Scott's own diaries. Chambers' convincing bill of Jumbo's hidden knowledge history increases an already spectacular legend.
