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Zoo e-bog
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How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the worldThe 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 o...
E-bog
25,00 DKK
Forlag
Penguin
Udgivet
3 november 2016
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
1DDU-GB-ESL
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780241975077
How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the worldThe 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.