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Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press ; National Zoological Park,, 1996
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- Prima edizione
Da: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.Katsumi-san Co.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Volume has minor wear; outer edges have light soil and/or foxing; text clean. xv, [1], 198 p., illustrated. [b 71] Most of the chapters are derived from papers delivered at a symposium held Oct. 1989 to celebrate the centennial of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological P…ark. Contents: Reflections on zoo history / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- Menageries and zoos to 1900 / R.J. Hoage, Anne Roskell, and Jane Mansour -- Menageries, metaphors, and meanings / Thomas Veltre -- Zoos in the family: the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clan and the three zoos of Paris / Michael A. Osborne -- The Order of nature: constructing the collections of Victorian zoos / Harriet Ritvo -- A Tales of two zoos: the Hamburg Zoological Garden and Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark / Herman Reichenbach -- Zoos and aquariums of Berlin / Harro Strehlow -- A Paradox of purposes: acclimatization origins of the Melbourne zoo / Linden Gillbank -- Ram Bramha Sanyal and the establishment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens / D.K. Mittra -- American showmen and European dealers: commerce in wild animals in nineteenth-century America / Richard W. Flint -- The Origin and development of American zoological parks to 1899 / Vernon N. Kisling Jr. -- The National Zoological Park: "city of refuge" or zoo? / Helen Lefkowitz-Horowitz -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- List of contributors -- Index.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, in association with the National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, 1996
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Da: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.Tiber Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. . . . . Lg 8vo, hardcover. No dj, maroon cloth. As new condition. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. xv, 198 p. illus. Most of the chapters are derived from papers delivered at a symposium held Oct. 1989 to celebrate the centennial of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park.
