Take Me Back to Manchester
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Take Me Back to Manchester
Sale Price:£5.00 Original Price:£10.00
In 1872, Maharajah, an elephant bought by Belle Vue Zoo at auction in Edinburgh, refused to board his train to Manchester.
Lorenzo Lawrence, his trainer, offered to walk him home. All two hundred and twenty miles.
This is their story.
152 pages. Full colour. Soft cover.
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Take Me Back To Manchester is a short documentary about elephants, comics and walking. In April 1872, a lion tamer called Lorenzo Lawrence bought an elephant called Maharajah at an auction in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then spent 10 days walking it more than 200 miles to Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester, England.