The Zoo
Autor Isobel Charmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2018
It is the story of the first zoo in history, a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of the filthy, swirling city of Dickensian London, and of the incredible characters, both human and animal, that populated it--from Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria to Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. This is a story of Victorian grandeur, of science and empire, and of adventurers and charlatans.
And it is the story of a dizzying age of Empire and industrialization, a time of change unmatched before or since.
This is the extraordinary story of London Zoo.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781681776835
ISBN-10: 1681776839
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 146 x 219 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
ISBN-10: 1681776839
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 146 x 219 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
Notă biografică
Isobel
Charmanis
an
award-winning
television
producer.
She
has
spent
the
last
decade
working
in
factual
documentary
production
as
a
writer,
researcher,
producer
and
director
and
has
worked
on
award-winning
films
for
UK,
European
and
US
broadcasters.
ForThe
Zooshe
has
made
unprecedented
use
of
the
vast
archives
at
the
Zoological
Society
of
London.
She
lives
in
London.
Recenzii
Vivid,
entertaining
and
scrupulously
researched
Fascinating... nostalgia, social and natural history and the ongoing need to change
What an incredible story ...a charming and lovely read... a striking tale of discovery for the people involved and also for us ...you can give this book to anyone
[A] vivid novelistic retelling . . . An impressive work of imagination and research, as well as a pleasure to read
A rich, imaginative and original history, written with a film-maker's eye for detail, and starring a remarkable cast of characters. Short of asking the animals themselves, it's hard to think how this might be bettered
Terrific. Charman flings open the doors of a cabinet stuffed with zoological and human curios, blows off the dust of a couple of centuries, and talks us expertly and entrancingly through each exhibit
Delightful. . . Charman takes the story out of the cages and onto the smoggy, sometimes riotous streets of Victorian London, up and down the country and beyond its shores
As I always tell my students, if you wish to understand science you need to understand the people involved in its development. Whilst the animals in a zoo are rightfully the stars of the show - their supporting human cast is no less fascinating and it is this that Isobel Charman has so wonderfully captured in her book.
She succeeds in personalising the story, bringing to life thisextraordinary episode in humankind's search for a better understanding of the natural world
The book's structure and style is that of a historical novel or Victorian melodrama...it would all make a wonderful seven-part historical costume drama
Charman possesses a proper historian's nose for a story and this is a good one
Charming... provides a fascinating Zoo's Who of the Victorian naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts who established a 'Noah's Ark' in the heart of the rackety capital
Charman crafts an affecting narrative of the first 25 years of the Zoological Society of London . . . The book isnuanced, often entertaining, and also tragic
[A] sprightly tale of the London Zoo from its conception in 1824 to the death of its longtime president in 1851. AsThe Zooengagingly shows us, caring for and observing caged beasts transformed our view of animals-and of ourselves
Astonishing
Deeply moving, fascinating and powerful
Fascinating... nostalgia, social and natural history and the ongoing need to change
What an incredible story ...a charming and lovely read... a striking tale of discovery for the people involved and also for us ...you can give this book to anyone
[A] vivid novelistic retelling . . . An impressive work of imagination and research, as well as a pleasure to read
A rich, imaginative and original history, written with a film-maker's eye for detail, and starring a remarkable cast of characters. Short of asking the animals themselves, it's hard to think how this might be bettered
Terrific. Charman flings open the doors of a cabinet stuffed with zoological and human curios, blows off the dust of a couple of centuries, and talks us expertly and entrancingly through each exhibit
Delightful. . . Charman takes the story out of the cages and onto the smoggy, sometimes riotous streets of Victorian London, up and down the country and beyond its shores
As I always tell my students, if you wish to understand science you need to understand the people involved in its development. Whilst the animals in a zoo are rightfully the stars of the show - their supporting human cast is no less fascinating and it is this that Isobel Charman has so wonderfully captured in her book.
She succeeds in personalising the story, bringing to life thisextraordinary episode in humankind's search for a better understanding of the natural world
The book's structure and style is that of a historical novel or Victorian melodrama...it would all make a wonderful seven-part historical costume drama
Charman possesses a proper historian's nose for a story and this is a good one
Charming... provides a fascinating Zoo's Who of the Victorian naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts who established a 'Noah's Ark' in the heart of the rackety capital
Charman crafts an affecting narrative of the first 25 years of the Zoological Society of London . . . The book isnuanced, often entertaining, and also tragic
[A] sprightly tale of the London Zoo from its conception in 1824 to the death of its longtime president in 1851. AsThe Zooengagingly shows us, caring for and observing caged beasts transformed our view of animals-and of ourselves
Astonishing
Deeply moving, fascinating and powerful