Author : David Garnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038487125
A Man in the Zoo
David Garnett
A Man In The Zoo
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A Man in the Zoo
David Garnett
Author : David Garnett
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513294216
A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett Pdf
A Man in the Zoo (1924) is a novel by David Garnett. Published several years after Garnett was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Lady into Fox (1922), his third novel explores themes of race and empire while showcasing the author’s original—and often controversial—literary style. “It was a warm day at the end of February, and Sunday morning. In the air there was a smell of spring, mixed with the odours of different animals—yaks, wolves, and musk-oxen, but the two visitors did not notice it. They were lovers, and were having a quarrel.” On a beautiful day at the local zoo, John Cromartie and Josephine Lackett find themselves falling out of love. Among the animals, Josephine explains that she can no longer explain their relationship to her family, who expect her to marry a man of equal social stature. Insulting John, she tells him he should live in the zoo before storming off. Heartbroken, and perhaps a little vindictive, John resolves to remain at the zoo with the animals she thinks he belongs with. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of David Garnett’s A Man in the Zoo is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Gingerbread Man Loose at The Zoo
Laura Murray
Author : Laura Murray
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698174108
The Gingerbread Man Loose at The Zoo by Laura Murray Pdf
When the Gingerbread Man is loose at the zoo, he has to be careful not to end up as an animal's lunch! Is there anything more fun than a class trip to the zoo? The Gingerbread Man and his classmates don’t think so, and they get to solve riddles on a WILD scavenger hunt. They meet giraffes, monkeys, and even a fox (especially scary for a Gingerbread Man!). But a zoo full of critters is a tricky place for a tasty cookie—even a very fast one—and the Gingerbread Man ends up separated from his friends. He needs to solve all of the riddles to catch up with his class and help someone else who is lost. I’ll be a detective. I know that I can! I’ll solve all these clues. I’m the Gingerbread Man! Animals galore and a trail of clues make the Gingerbread Man’s latest adventure his wildest one yet. Look for all of this hilarious Gingerbread Man's adventures: The Gingerbread Man Loose at School, The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck, The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas, The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo, and The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose at School!
The Man Who Ate the Zoo
Richard Girling
Author : Richard Girling
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473522947
The Man Who Ate the Zoo by Richard Girling Pdf
Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century’s most improbable geniuses. His lifelong passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. Rhinoceros, crocodile, puppy-dog, giraffe, kangaroo, bear and panther all had their chance to impress, but what finally - and, eventually, fatally - obsessed him was fish. Forgotten now, he was one of the most original, far-sighted and influential natural scientists of his time, held as high in public esteem as his great philosophical enemy, Charles Darwin.
The Old Men at the Zoo
Angus Wilson
Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571310074
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson Pdf
Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy - the fantasy of war. This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma.
Lady Into Fox & A Man in the Zoo
David Garnett
Author : David Garnett
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112045851182
Lady Into Fox & A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett Pdf
A Man in the Zoo (Classic Reprint)
David Garnett
Author : David Garnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1397176911
A Man in the Zoo (Classic Reprint) by David Garnett Pdf
Excerpt from A Man in the Zoo It was a warm day at the end of February, and Sunday morning. In the air there was a smell of spring, mixed with the odours of different animals - yaks, wolves, and musk-oxen, but the two visitors did not notice it. They were lovers, and were having a quarrel. They came soon to the Wolves and Foxes, and stood still opposite a cage containing an animal very like a dog. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Human Zoo
Desmond Morris
Author : Desmond Morris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409020622
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris Pdf
A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape. This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living. ‘Compelling and absorbing...Morris is concerned with the tension between our biology and our culture, as it is expressed in power, sex, status and war games’ New York Times
Man and Animal in the Zoo
Heini Hediger
Author : Heini Hediger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Zoo animals
ISBN : 0710078161
Man and Animal in the Zoo by Heini Hediger Pdf
The Rome Zoo
Pascal Janovjak
Author : Pascal Janovjak
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743821855
The Rome Zoo by Pascal Janovjak Pdf
Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls ... The Rome Zoo: a place born of fantasy and driven by a nation’s aspirations. It has witnessed – and reflected in its tarnished mirror – the great follies of the twentieth century. Now, in an ongoing battle that has seen it survive world wars and epidemics, the zoo must once again reinvent itself, and assert its relevance in the Eternal City. Caught up in these machinations is a cast of characters worthy of this baroque backdrop: a man desperate to find meaning in his own life, a woman tasked with halting the zoo’s decline and a rare animal, the last of its species, who bewitches the world. Drifting between past and present, The Rome Zoo weaves together these and many other stories, forming a colourful and evocative tapestry of life at this strange place. It is both a love story and a poignant juxtaposition of the human need to classify, to subdue, with the untameable nature of our dramas and anxieties. Spellbinding and disturbing, precise and dreamy, this award-winning novel, translated by Stephanie Smee, is unlike any other. Winner of the Swiss Literature Award, the Prix Michel-Dentan and the Prix du public de la RTS “Like all truly great literary allegories, The Rome Zoo is both innocent and wise, filled equally with tenderness and darkness. A gorgeous, dream-like fable of Italy's past and present.” —Ceridwen Dovey
Spectacle
Pamela Newkirk
Author : Pamela Newkirk
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062201010
Spectacle by Pamela Newkirk Pdf
2016 NAACP Image Award Winner An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and Medical Apartheid. In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese “pygmy”—a person of petite stature—arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New Yorkers and commanding headlines from across the nation and Europe. Spectacle explores the circumstances of Ota Benga’s captivity, the international controversy it inspired, and his efforts to adjust to American life. It also reveals why, decades later, the man most responsible for his exploitation would be hailed as his friend and savior, while those who truly fought for Ota have been banished to the shadows of history. Using primary historical documents, Pamela Newkirk traces Ota’s tragic life, from Africa to St. Louis to New York, and finally to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he lived out the remainder of his short life. Illuminating this unimaginable event, Spectacle charts the evolution of science and race relations in New York City during the early years of the twentieth century, exploring this racially fraught era for Africa-Americans and the rising tide of political disenfranchisement and social scorn they endured, forty years after the end of the Civil War. Shocking and compelling Spectacle is a masterful work of social history that raises difficult questions about racial prejudice and discrimination that continue to haunt us today.
Ota
Phillips Verner Bradford,Harvey Blume
Author : Phillips Verner Bradford,Harvey Blume
Publisher : Delta
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0385311052
Ota by Phillips Verner Bradford,Harvey Blume Pdf
Describes how, in 1906, a missionary in Africa brought Benga to the United States and placed him on display at the World's Fair
The Great Zoo of China
Matthew Reilly
Author : Matthew Reilly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476749570
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly Pdf
"The all-new thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. Of course it can't... GET READY FOR ACTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE"--
Zoo Nebraska
Carson Vaughan
Author : Carson Vaughan
Publisher : Little A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Captive chimpanzees
ISBN : 1503901505
Zoo Nebraska by Carson Vaughan Pdf
A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one--where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man's outsize vision. When Dick Haskin's plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick's devotion to primates didn't die with her. He returned to his hometown with Reuben, an adolescent chimp, in the bed of a pickup truck and transformed a trailer home into the Midwest Primate Center. As the tourist trade multiplied, so did the inhabitants of what would become Zoo Nebraska, the unlikeliest boon to Royal's economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskin's dream.
We Bought a Zoo
Benjamin Mee
Author : Benjamin Mee
Publisher : Weinstein Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602861589
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee Pdf
The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo-already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in The Guardian. In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Mee had a dream to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. His friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. But in 2006, Mee and his wife with their two children, his brother, and his 76-year-old mother moved into the Dartmoor Wildlife Park. Their extended family now included: Solomon, an African lion and scourge of the local golf course; Zak, the rickety Alpha wolf, a broadly benevolent dictator clinging to power; Ronnie, a Brazilian tapir, easily capable of killing a man, but hopelessly soppy; and Sovereign, a jaguar and would-be ninja, who has devised a long term escape plan and implemented it. Nothing was easy, given the family's lack of experience as zookeepers, and what follows is a magical exploration of the mysteries of the animal kingdom, the power of family, and the triumph of hope over tragedy. We Bought a Zoo is a profoundly moving portrait of an unforgettable family living in the most extraordinary circumstances.