Description
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. It sets Buckland's thinking and achievements in a rounded historical context, but views this Victorian adventurer from a modern viewpoint. It is a celebration of the great age of natural science, one man's genius and what, even now, can be learned from him.
Author: Richard Girling
Publisher: Vintage UK
Published: 07/01/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781784701611
ISBN10: 1784701610
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
About the Author
Richard Girling is an award-winning environmental journalist. He was named Specialist Writer of the Year in the UK Press Awards in 2002, and was shortlisted for the same award in 2005 and 2006. He was Journalist of the Year at the Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards in 2008 and 2009. He is the author of The Hunt for the Golden Mole.