PETS
192 Pages, 5.08 x 7.8
Formats: EPUB, Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $21.99 (CA $29.99) (US $21.99)
Publication Date: May 2024
ISBN 9781803993850
Rights: US & CA
The History Press (May 2024)
eBook Editions Available
Will it work on my eReader?A quirky look at some of the most unusual garden animals ever kept in Britain, from crocodiles to wombats
Perhaps one of the less known facts about the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti is that he kept wombats in his garden at Cheyne Walk, London, to whom he and Christina addressed poetry (he also kept zebu - a type of cattle). This is just one of the stories in this entertaining book, which brings together two great British pastimes: animal husbandry and the garden.
Taking the reader on a journey from the armadillos owned by merchants in the City of London in the eighteenth century and nourished on garden earthworms, to Queen Charlotte's zebra, which was accommodated close to her house at Buckingham Gate and renowned for its nicotine-fueled filthy temper, here are quirky tales of animals in the garden through the centuries.