The Zoo

Autor*innen

• Isobel Charman

Parameter

• 368 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Geschichte
• Historische Romane
• Natur, Tiere
• Sachliteratur

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The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all four corners of the globe. It is the story of a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of a swirling city, and of incredible characters, both human and animal - from Stamford Raffles and Charles Darwin to Jenny the orang-utan and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. Against a background of global Empire, domestic reform and industrialisation, this is a new history of a new world.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Einband: Paperback