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Zoo Story : Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101401310532

ISBN-139781401310530

eBay Product ID (ePID)99722467

Product Key Features

Book TitleZoo Story : Life in the Garden of Captives

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicAnimal Rights

GenreNature

AuthorThomas French

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal590.73/759

Synopsis"This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail." -Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author "An insightful and detailed look at the complex life of a zoo and its denizens, both animal and human." -Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story , an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants. 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. 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. 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.