Savages and Beasts

Author: Nigel Rothfels
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004KSRHQI
Category: Medical

Savages and Beasts (Animals, History, Culture)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Download Savages and Beasts medical books for free.
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 Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck.By the late nineteenth century, Hagenbeck had emerged as the world's undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animals - Get Savages and Beasts our bestseller medical books.

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