Babylon's Ark
Subtitle: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: March 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312358327
Subjects: Zoos & wildlife parks; Zoo animals; Iraq War, 2003; Conservation; Nature; Wildlife rescue; Nature/Ecology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Animals; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Baghdad; Iraq
First sentence: ON THE EASTERN SIDE of the border hundreds of civilian vehicles were jammed up bumper-to-bumper, gridlocked on the desert sands as crowds queued to get out of war-torn Iraq.