The man who ate the zoo : Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history
Girling, Richard2017
Book
Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - a surgeon, a natural historian, a sell-out lecturer, a bestselling writer, a museum curator - and a conservationist, before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, popular, prolific, he was one of the 19th century's authentic geniuses. He was obsessed by food security and finding ways to feed the hungry (the book recounts his many unusual experiments), and by protecting our fisheries (he can be credited with saving British fish from commercial extinction). He was one of the most original, far-sighted and influential natural scientists of his time, held as high in public esteem as Charles Darwin. 'The Man Who Ate the Zoo' is no conventional biography, but rather a journey back into Buckland's life, a hunt for this forgotten man.
Main title:
The man who ate the zoo : Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history / Richard Girling.
Author:
Girling, Richard, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2017.
Collation:
394 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.
ISBN:
9781784701611 (pbk)
Dewey class:
508.092508.092 BUCB/BUC
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2575755