Chee-lin : a giraffe's journey /

Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world. The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin. This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese, it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once b...

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Main Author: Rumford, James, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
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