The animal game searching for wildness at the American zoo
Introduction: The zoo parade -- The elephant's skin: animals and their visitors -- The voyage of the silverash: the big business of tropical animals -- Jungleland: the money in wildlife -- The monkeys' island: the New Deal builds a modern zoo -- Aping: African animals on zoo stages -- Don't feed the keepers: the labor and care of zookeepers -- The zoo man's holiday: adventuring for the zoo -- My animal babies: caring for endangered species -- Dangerous safari: conservation at the end of empire -- Conclusion: Searching for the yeti: wildness in the age of extinction
Print Book, English, 2016
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016