Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

by Ann C. Colley

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What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain's craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1472427785

ISBN13:9781472427786

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:Routledge

Length:218 Pages

Weight:1.07 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Nature Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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