# The Zoo

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- Authors: [Isobel Charman](https://www.bookquiver.com/isobel-charman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-11-03

## Description

The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all four corners of the globe. It is the story of a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of a swirling city, and of incredible characters, both human and animal - from Stamford Raffles and Charles Darwin to Jenny the orang-utan and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. Against a background of global Empire, domestic reform and industrialisation, this is a new history of a new world.

## Editions

### The Zoo

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-506-0
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Zoo

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-507-7
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB