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Obaysch
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Author : Simons, John
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Obaysch written by Simons, John and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Science categories.
In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of ‘hippomania’, doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens almost overnight. Delving into the circumstances of Obaysch’s capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the phenomenon of ‘star’ animals in Victorian Britain against the backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Along the way, he uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew.
Hippopotamus
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Author : Edgar Williams
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Hippopotamus written by Edgar Williams and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Nature categories.
They are famously fat—cumbersome, lethargic, and oddly charming for the way they lounge around half-submerged in muddy pools all day. Hippos are gregarious herbivores that don’t much like the heat, but as Edgar Williams shows in this colorful book, they can also be quite ill-tempered, and their huge mouths, sharp tusks, and powerful jaws can cut a small boat right in half. Taking readers into the swampy lands of Africa—as well as a few other surprising places—Hippopotamus tells the story of these iconic lumbering beasts. As Williams recounts, while Hippos are only found in Africa today, they actually originated in Asia. They are closer relatives to whales than to pigs or horses, as previously thought. And until the last Ice Age, you could find them as far north as Europe. Today the common hippo is confined to south, central, and east Africa, and its mysterious cousin, the Pygmy Hippo, is only found in the forests of Sierra Leone. From these natural confines, Williams explores how hippos have lived in much wider regions of the human imagination, from the hippo deity Taweret in Ancient Egypt to Obaysch, the first living hippo exhibited in the London Zoo in the nineteenth century, whom Charles Dickens called our “illustrious stranger.” A fascinating history of the hippo in natural and human history, this book also serves as a call for conservation efforts to protect this vulnerable animal.
The Juvenile
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
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Cassell S Natural History The Feathered Tribes
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
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Famous Animals In History And Popular Culture
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Author : Ann C. Paietta
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-05-02
Famous Animals In History And Popular Culture written by Ann C. Paietta and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with Nature categories.
During the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson bought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds to save money on groundskeeping. One of the sheep, called Old Ike, even became a public phenomenon for his ornery disposition and his penchant for chewing tobacco. Included here are hundreds of well-researched accounts of the fascinating animals that have played vital roles throughout history. Featured animals include Able, who flew on a space mission; Bayou, Salvador Dali's ocelot companion; and G.I. Joe, a pigeon who saved more than 100 people during World War II. These and many other stories detail the unexpected contributions of our animal companions in settings of war, space travel, stage and screen. The book is organized alphabetically by the given name of each animal, and entries feature compelling factual descriptions in a storytelling format.
Haney S Art Of Training Animals
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
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The Colour Of Time A New History Of The World 1850 1960
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Author : Dan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-09
The Colour Of Time A New History Of The World 1850 1960 written by Dan Jones and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with History categories.
The top five Sunday Times bestseller. 'Breathtaking' Daily Mail. 'Astonishing' Sun. 'Shimmering' Spectator. 'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history. The book is a collaboration between a gifted Brazilian artist and a leading British historian. Marina Amaral has created 200 stunning images, using contemporary photographs as the basis for her full-colour digital renditions. Dan Jones has written a narrative that anchors each image in its context, and weaves them into a vivid account of the world that we live in today. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen words, The Colour of Time offers a unique – and often beautiful – perspective on the past.
Cassell S Popular Natural History
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Author : Cassell, ltd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
Cassell S Popular Natural History written by Cassell, ltd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with categories.
Wild Animals In Captivity
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Author : Abraham Dee Bartlett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Wild Animals In Captivity written by Abraham Dee Bartlett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Animal behavior categories.
The Encyclopaedia Of Everything Else
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Author : William Hartston
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2022-11-03
The Encyclopaedia Of Everything Else written by William Hartston and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Reference categories.
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows. Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere. The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.