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Nigel Rothfels

Savages and Beasts - The Birth of the Modern Zoo

English · Hardback

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Summary

This text traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck. Hagenbeck opened the Hagenbeck Animal Park in 1907 in a village near Hamburg, and this park sought to move wild animals out of their cages and into "natural landscapes".

Product details

Authors	Nigel Rothfels
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	08.10.2002

EAN	9780801869105
ISBN	978-0-8018-6910-5
No. of pages	304
Series	Animals, History, Culture
Subject	Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history

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