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I've just finished Rock Landscapes, The Pulham Legacy, a book that has a tenuous zoo link. The Pulham company made a artificial rock called Pulhamite. For over 100 years they built rockeries in places such as Buckingham Palace and Sandringham, and in public parks such as Battersea and Crystal Palace. They also built them in many coastal towns e.g Ramsgate.
Unsurprisingly, their skills as fake rock fabricators led them to work on zoo enclosures. Between 1905 and 1913 the Zoological Society of London employed their services to build rock features "in the sea lion pool, monkey enclosure and polar bear enclosure." I already knew of the sea lion rock work but not the others which, apparently, were later removed.
 
Surprisingly, despite being a big Douglas Adams fan and of course into wildlife/zoos etc., I'd never read Last Chance to See by Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams until a couple of weeks ago. Thoroughly recommended.
 
"The Deer of all Lands: A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct" (Lydekker;1898)

I'm sure a first edition of this book from 1898 would be outside my price range but, fortunately, reprints can now be purchased on-line at reasonable prices.

This book is well illustrated with photos taken by the Duchess of Bedford of deer at Woburn
 
I've finally got round to reading this book which was a gift from one of my teachers just before finishing college in the summer:

Norbury Park: An estate tackling climate change by Jo Bradwell
 
I just started Every Living Thing by James Herriot, which is the last book in the All Creatures Great and Small series. I haven't read the other books and normally I would start with the first one, but I happened to see it at the library so I checked it out. I've watched all four seasons of the Masterpiece series and recently started the fifth so I'm familiar with the characters. By skipping to the last book, maybe I'll read some new material that hasn't been featured in the television program.
 
I have been perusing Habitats of Africa: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists by Ken Behrens, Keith Barnes and Iain Campbell, a recently published book that is an expanded and enriched version of the African chapters of the earlier published - and also quite excellent - Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists by Iain Campbell, Ken Behrens, Charles Hesse and Phil Chaon.

I am also currently reading King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.
 
I've recently started reading Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss. Haven't read much of it yet so can't yet opine much, but has been interesting so far.
 
Peer Gynt. I saw the play last week and it was really weird but good. Now I'm reading the book to get a better understanding.
 
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