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Life at the Zoo: Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park Gardens

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Life at the Zoo: Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park Gardens

Charles John Cornish and Gambier Bolton

315 pages~6 hr 16 min read43 chapters$4.99
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Charles Cornish wandered London's Regent's Park zoo and wrote down its secrets: a butterfly farm, an electric eel, the patterns on living animals, the private drama of the lion house. His sketches read the menagerie as a living theatre, from diving birds to the ghosts of the tropical house. Warm, curious Victorian zoo-going. Step through the gates after hours.

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43 chapters

  1. 1LIFE AT THE ZOO
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5THE ZOO IN A FROST
  6. 6THE GHOSTS OF THE TROPICAL FOREST.
  7. 7THE BUTTERFLY FARM AT THE ZOO
  8. 8PATTERNS ON LIVING ANIMALS.
  9. 9THE GIRAFFE’S OBITUARY.
  10. 10THE ELECTRIC EEL.
  11. 11DEEP-SEA LAMPS.
  12. 12THE LION HOUSE AT THE ZOO.
  13. 13DIVING BIRDS AT THE ZOO.
  14. 14TAME DIVERS.
  15. 15THE QUEST FOR THE WILD HORSE.
  16. 16ÆSTHETICS AT THE ZOO. THE ANIMAL SENSE OF BEAUTY.
  17. 17ÆSTHETICS AT THE ZOO. SCENTS AND SOUNDS.
  18. 18ORPHEUS AT THE ZOO. THE FIRST VISIT.

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