Zoo Story : Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French (2010, Hardcover)

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ISBN
9781401323462
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1401323464
ISBN-13
9781401323462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78805534

Product Key Features

Book Title
Zoo Story : Life in the Garden of Captives
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Animals / Wildlife, Animals / General, Endangered Species, Animal Rights
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Nature
Author
Thomas French
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-284353
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
590.73/759
Synopsis
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story , an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. Zoo Story crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of extinction, humanity's role in the destruction or survival of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story of seduction and betrayal, exile and loss, and the limits of freedom on an overcrowded planet-all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the twenty-first century. Thomas French, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, chronicles the action with vivid power: Wild elephants soaring above the Atlantic on their way to captivity. Predators circling each other in a lethal mating dance. Primates plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book's four-legged characters. Even animal lovers will be startled by the emotional charge of these creatures' histories, which read as though they were co-written by Dickens and Darwin. Zoo Story shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.
LC Classification Number
QL76.5.U62T36 2010

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