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By Caroline Grigson
From Henry III's elephant on the Tower, to George IV's love affair with Britain's first giraffe and woman Castlereagh's recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson's journey during the centuries quantities to an impressively distinct historical past of unique animals in Britain. at the means we stumble upon a bunch of attention-grabbing and outlandish creatures, together with the 1st peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey, James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra - which refused to mate with a
donkey, until eventually the donkey was once painted with stripes.
But this isn't simply the tale of the animals themselves. It additionally the tale of all those that got here into touch with them: the folks who owned them, the retailers who received and bought them, the seamen who carried them to our shorelines, the naturalists who wrote approximately them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who labored with them, the creditors who gathered them. And final yet now not least, it really is approximately all those that easily got here to work out and sweetness at them, from kings, queens, and nobles
to traditional males, ladies, and kids, frequently impelled through not more than basic interest and a yearning for novelty.
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