PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780241240687
- Categories BX, BXOS, H/C, History, IM1, NF HIS, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities
- Author(s) Isobel Charman
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Pages 368
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 23cm x 4cm x 14cm
- Weight 0.51 kg
product description
How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world 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.