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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Hancocks |
ISBN: | 0520218795 9780520218796 0520236769 9780520236769 |
OCLC Number: | 45276533 |
Awards: | Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2001 |
Description: | xxii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Collections as status -- 2. The eighteenth-century concept -- 3. The nineteenth-century phenomenon -- 4. Romanticists and modernists -- 5. Toward new frontiers -- 6. Immersed in the landscape -- 7. Agents of conservation -- 8. Which way the future? -- 9. Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | David Hancocks. |
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Abstract:
Looks at the origins, evolution, and the future of zoos. This book reviews the history of zoos in light of their failures and successes and points the way toward a more humane approach, one that will benefit both the animals and the humans who visit them.
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"Brilliant. Its clear and unpretentious language and Hancocks' evident passion for and knowledge of his subject made it one of the best books I have read in a long while."-Tim Murray, The Age (Melbourne) An "excellent survey."-BBC Wildlife Read more...

