The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history

By Richard Girling

Book Overview

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon natural historian popular lecturer bestselling writer museum curator and a conservationist before the concept even existed.

Eccentric revolutionary prolific he was one of the nineteenth century's most improbable geniuses. His lifelong passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. Rhinoceros crocodile puppy-dog giraffe kangaroo bear and panther all had their chance to impress but what finally - and eventually fatally - obsessed him was fish.

Forgotten now he was one of the most original far-sighted and influential natural scientists of his time held as high in public esteem as his great philosophical enemy Charles Darwin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784701610
• ISBN13: 9781784701611
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"