The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art

by Charlotte Sleigh

As children, our first encounters with the world's animals do not arise during expeditions through faraway jungles or on perilous mountain treks. Instead, we meet these creatures between the pages of a book, on the floor of an obliging library. Down through the centuries, illustrated books have served as our paper zoos, both documenting the world's extraordinary wildlife in exquisite detail and revealing, in hindsight, how our relationship to and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022644712X
• ISBN13: 9780226447124
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.8" x 11.1"