The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild Beasts by Daniel Hahn

The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild Beasts

Daniel Hahn

288 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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When King Henry III was given three leopards by his new brother-in-law, Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, he ordered -- in desperation -- that they be sent to the Tower of London, his great fortress by the bank of the Thames. After all, where doe...

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