Cover of Menagerie

Book 2016

Menagerie

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2016
  • Zoology, great britain
  • Animals
  • Menageries
  • History
  • Exotic animals
  • Captive wild animals
  • Wild animal collecting
  • Ménagerie

The story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo and beyond - a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and, on occasion, the downright bizarre.