Clara the Rhinoceros publishing Thirty years later

Thirty years later

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Clara the Rhinoceros publishing Thirty years laterIn 1741 a VOC ship from India arrives in the Netherlands, with a miraculous animal on board that no one in Europe has ever seen before: a young rhino named Clara. For no less than seventeen years she travelled with her owner Douwe Mout through almost every country in Europe. Wherever she is exhibited, she is a sensation; she grows into the most famous rhino in European history. Based on new research, Gijs van der Ham reconstructs her life among people