Paperback
Zoo Story: Exploitation, conservation, and the animal heart of the matter.

Zoo Story

Life in the Garden of Captives

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    17 May 2011

Summary

Now in paperback, in a riveting book that is part Seabiscuit and part An Inconvenient Truth, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas French follows the life and death struggles of animals at the Tampa Zoo, exposing the corporate greed that nearly destroyed the zoo and tackling fundamental contradictions at the heart of why zoos exist and why we are drawn to them.

More than 175 million Americans attend zoos every year, more than NFL, NBA, and Major League Baseball attend…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781401310530
ISBN-10:1401310532
Author:Thomas French
Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
Imprint:Hyperion
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:17 May 2011
Weight:260g
Dimensions:133mm x 203mm
A-Format
B-Format
Zoo Story by Thomas French - ISBN: 9781401310530
133 × 203 mm
C-Format
A4
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About The Author

Thomas French

Thomas French has been a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times for the past 27 years. He is the author of two books and won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for Angels & Demons, a seven part series detailing the murders of Jo, Michelle and Christe Rogers and the eventual capture of the murderer, Oba Chandler.

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