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Life at the Zoo: Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park Gardens
Charles John Cornish and Gambier Bolton
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
- 1LIFE AT THE ZOO
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5THE ZOO IN A FROST
- 6THE GHOSTS OF THE TROPICAL FOREST.
- 7THE BUTTERFLY FARM AT THE ZOO
- 8PATTERNS ON LIVING ANIMALS.
- 9THE GIRAFFE’S OBITUARY.
- 10THE ELECTRIC EEL.
- 11DEEP-SEA LAMPS.
- 12THE LION HOUSE AT THE ZOO.
- 13DIVING BIRDS AT THE ZOO.
- 14TAME DIVERS.
- 15THE QUEST FOR THE WILD HORSE.
- 16ÆSTHETICS AT THE ZOO. THE ANIMAL SENSE OF BEAUTY.
- 17ÆSTHETICS AT THE ZOO. SCENTS AND SOUNDS.
- 18ORPHEUS AT THE ZOO. THE FIRST VISIT.
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