Beasts And Men

Carl Hagenbeck was a German animal dealer who built a business supplying wild creatures to zoos, circuses and menageries. In this memoir he recounts roughly fifty years spent capturing, buying and shipping animals from distant lands. Along the way he describes the people, hunters and handlers he worked with and the practical problems of moving dangerous animals across oceans and continents. The book offers a firsthand view of the animal trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by the man who ran it from Hamburg.