Cornish spent many hours at the London Zoo and writes of it in all seasons: the gardens in a hard frost, the butterfly farm, animals’ sensitivity to music, the patterns on their coats, an obituary for a giraffe, the electric eel and deep-sea lamps, and the efforts of private parks to save moose, pronghorn and beaver.
Affectionate Victorian natural history for anyone who loves animals and the Zoo. Download the free EPUB.