THOMAS FRENCH has been a journalist for three decades. For most of that time, he worked as a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He now teaches journalism at Indiana University.
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story , an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. Zoo Story crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of extinction, humanity's role in the destruction or survival of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story of seduction and betrayal, exile and loss, and the limits of freedom on an overcrowded planet--all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the twenty-first century. Thomas French, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, chronicles the action with vivid power: Wild elephants soaring above the Atlantic on their way to captivity. Predators circling each other in a lethal mating dance. Primates plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book's four-legged characters. Even animal lovers will be startled by the emotional charge of these creatures' histories, which read as though they were co-written by Dickens and Darwin. Zoo Story shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.
發表於2024-11-23
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評分啊啊啊啊竟然第一個寫短評,好雞凍!文學性和知識性都堪稱一流。無論從瞭解動物園(裏的動物和飼養員)的角度,還是單純學英語、欣賞英文之美,或是像讀小說那樣(黑猩猩的猩生可以單獨成書瞭)這本書都絕佳。我為書中的大象、黑猩猩、孟加拉虎不可抗拒的命運而嘆息落淚。它們憂傷的眼睛充滿愛意或敵意地盯著走近的人類。書中的描述還是比較客觀的,相信讀者會自己得齣一個對於動物園更為立體全麵的看法。
評分啊啊啊啊竟然第一個寫短評,好雞凍!文學性和知識性都堪稱一流。無論從瞭解動物園(裏的動物和飼養員)的角度,還是單純學英語、欣賞英文之美,或是像讀小說那樣(黑猩猩的猩生可以單獨成書瞭)這本書都絕佳。我為書中的大象、黑猩猩、孟加拉虎不可抗拒的命運而嘆息落淚。它們憂傷的眼睛充滿愛意或敵意地盯著走近的人類。書中的描述還是比較客觀的,相信讀者會自己得齣一個對於動物園更為立體全麵的看法。
評分啊啊啊啊竟然第一個寫短評,好雞凍!文學性和知識性都堪稱一流。無論從瞭解動物園(裏的動物和飼養員)的角度,還是單純學英語、欣賞英文之美,或是像讀小說那樣(黑猩猩的猩生可以單獨成書瞭)這本書都絕佳。我為書中的大象、黑猩猩、孟加拉虎不可抗拒的命運而嘆息落淚。它們憂傷的眼睛充滿愛意或敵意地盯著走近的人類。書中的描述還是比較客觀的,相信讀者會自己得齣一個對於動物園更為立體全麵的看法。
Zoo Story 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載