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The Tower Menagerie

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The Tower Menagerie

Edward Turner Bennett and William Harvey

216 pages~4 hr 19 min read59 chapters$4.99
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For centuries lions, tigers, and leopards paced in cages inside the Tower of London, England's oldest zoo. Edward Bennett describes each animal of the royal menagerie in turn, from the Bengal lion to the puma, with the natural history known of them. A window onto both wild beasts and the strange fortress that held them. Meet the Tower's caged kings.

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59 chapters

  1. 1THE TOWER MENAGERIE.
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4THE BENGAL LION.
  5. 5THE LIONESS AND HER CUBS.
  6. 6THE CAPE LION.
  7. 7THE BARBARY LIONESS.
  8. 8THE TIGER.
  9. 9THE LEOPARD.
  10. 10THE JAGUAR.
  11. 11THE PUMA.
  12. 12THE OCELOT.
  13. 13THE CARACAL.
  14. 14THE CHETAH, OR HUNTING LEOPARD.
  15. 15THE STRIPED HYÆNA.
  16. 16THE HYÆNA-DOG.
  17. 17THE AFRICAN BLOODHOUND.
  18. 18THE WOLF.

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