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Paperback The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy: Exotic Animals in Victorian England Book

ISBN: 1907471715

ISBN13: 9781907471711

The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy: Exotic Animals in Victorian England

Looking at zoological gardens, private menageries, circuses, and natural history museums, this fascinating account explores the surprising extent of the exotic-animal trade in 19th-century England and its colonies. Filled with entertaining anecdotes--from the tiger that prowled down St. George's Street in London with a boy in its mouth and the polar bear that killed a dog in Liverpool to the kangaroos hopping around the lawns of stately homes and...

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