For Klsdad

• Pub. Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Format: Hardcover, 216pp

• ISBN-13: 9780252028618
  
• ISBN: 0252028619

"Drawing visitors to the heart of Chicago's north side for 135 years, Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the oldest and most popular zoos in America. This thorough and fascinating history of the zoo combines archival materials, photographs, and oral histories to chronicle the zoo's development and chart the unique role it has played not just in the growth of Chicago but in the establishment of zoos in cities across America." This comprehensive history of Lincoln Park Zoo also tells the wider story of the growth of the American zoo movement and the changes that have occurred in the past century, as zoos evolved from a leisure pursuit into a multimillion-dollar industry. Today's zoos are invaluable participants in global conservation efforts.

"Klsdad, knowing of your interest in zoological books and zoo history, this book available from Barnes and Noble, as well as other sources, is highly recommended. Mark Rosenthal is one of "us", and most definitely not one of them.

Students of the wonderful, wacky, wild, nothing else like it world of zoo's and captive animals will also find it is a "must have" for your zoo animal library."