Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals, History, Culture)

By Nigel Rothfels

Book Overview

To modern sensibilities, 19th-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In this text, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801869102
• ISBN13: 9780801869105
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"