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Original Title:	Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
ISBN:	0312358326 (ISBN13: 9780312358327)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Baghdad(Iraq)

Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

Lawrence Anthony

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 2945 Users | 336 Reviews

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Title	:	Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Author	:	Lawrence Anthony
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2007 by Thomas Dunne Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Animals. History. War. Autobiography. Memoir

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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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I did not enjoy this as much as Elephant Whisperer, but I can still recommend it. There are a few pages that seemed to be a "cut and paste" from Elephant Whisperer, but that is my only complaint. The story is compelling and the writing is clear. If you have enjoyed Lawrence Anthony's work in the past, this will not disappoint.

4.25 starsIn 2003, during the war in Iraq, a few hundred animals were abandoned in their cages, unable to fend for themselves, in the Baghdad Zoo. When Lawrence Anthony, conservationist and owner of the Thula Thula animal sanctuary in South Africa saw this on tv, he knew he had to help. He worked as fast as he could to organize everything to be allowed in to Baghdad at this time. He was one of the only foreign civilians allowed in at this time, while war still went on around the city. The zoo

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I absolutely LOVED this book...just as much as I loved his first..."The Elephant Whisperer" and his last..."the Last Rhino". I actually googled Laurence Anthony after reading "The Elephant Whisperer" and was crushed to read that he had died shortly after writing "The Last Rhino". All three of these books are so informative, heart-warming, and yet horrifying with the descriptions of the evils of poaching these animals to extinction. I seldom plead with people to read books--but in this case, I'm

I read The Elephant Whisperer a few months back and fell in love. I've now read Babylon's Ark, and that love has only grown. I am dying to read The Last Rhinos now. Lawrence Anthony is not a "writer" by any means. There's a ruggedness to his works that confirms that his first focus is conservation and maintaining his nature reserve, Thula Thula. But Lawrence Anthony is a storyteller. And an incredibly gifted one at that. Having read two of his books now, I am in awe at how well he takes readers

This book tells the fascinating story of a conservationist from South Africa who decided to save the Baghdad Zoo in the middle of the Second Gulf War. He sweet-talked his way into Kuwait, bludgeoned and bonhomie-d his way from there in Iraq with a rented Toyota and two Kuwaiti zoo workers. The story is stunning. Unfortunately, though Lawrence Anthony has many gifts, writing is not one of them. (Hence the presence of the co-author). The book's quality of writing, pacing and language are extremely

Lawrence Anthony entered a war zone to save animals from the destroyed Baghdad Zoo - and succeeded. But not without problems. In the early days - or rather weeks - of the rescue, the looters in particular, the Ali Baba as they were called, made me want to go back in time, fly right there, punch them in the face and kick them in the balls. It's crazy what they had to go through to care for these animals, to keep them alive. And they were in constant danger amidst all that. I don't think many