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  • Elephant House

  • Traces the history of the Asian elephant display at the Oregon Zoo from the 1950s to the present. An introduction by historian Nigel Rothfels explores changes in elephant husbandry since the 1870s.


  • ISBN-13: 9780271070858 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $77.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Local release date: 14/12/2015
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  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
9781421442594 Academic Inspection Copy
9780801889752 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Savages and Beasts

  • The Birth of the Modern Zoo
  • To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801889752 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Local release date: 01/07/2008
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  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
9781421450889 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Savages and Beasts

  • The Birth of the Modern Zoo
  • Now completely revised! A history of the modern zoo. In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth century. Building from his core business in animals, Hagenbeck eventually ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421450889 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $83.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Local release date: 04/02/2025
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  • Categories: European history [HBJD]History of science [PDX]Zoos & wildlife parks [WNH]
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