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Our Gigantic Zoo - A German Quest to Save the Serengeti

English · Hardback

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Our Gigantic Zoo tells the story of Bernhard Grzimek, the most important European wildlife conservationist, and his role in creating a permanent sanctuary for innocent animals in Serengeti National Park.

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  • Preface

  • A Note on Sources

  • Abbreviations

  • Introduction Mission for Africa

  • Chapter 1 A Zookeeper's Ecology

  • Chapter 2 No Room for Wild Animals

  • Chapter 3 Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

  • Chapter 4 Serengeti Shall Not Die

  • Chapter 5 A Weakness for the Maasai

  • Chapter 6 An Honest Broker for the Animals

  • Chapter 7 Who Cares for Africa's Game?

  • Epilogue A Trip to Seronera

  • Notes

  • Index



About the author

Thomas M. Lekan is a professor at the University of South Carolina with a joint appointment in the Department of History and the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment. He is the author of Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945 and the co-editor of Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History.

Summary

Our Gigantic Zoo tells the story of Bernhard Grzimek, the most important European wildlife conservationist, and his role in creating a permanent sanctuary for innocent animals in Serengeti National Park.

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Our Gigantic Zoo offers a compelling and readable portrait of Bernhard Grzimek, West Germany's first celebrity animal expert, from his years as a Nazi agricultural expert to his wildlife conservation efforts in Julius Nyerere's Tanzania. Thomas Lekan looks beyond the spectacle of animal television to tell a story about Cold War geopolitics, decolonization, and colonial and post-colonial dispossession.

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