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Zoo (2004)

Zoo (2004)

Eric Baratay, Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier

Year: 2004
Authors: Eric Baratay, Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier
Publishers: Reaktion Books
Pages: 412
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.