Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps
by
Ann C. Colley
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann...