Perhaps one of the less known facts about the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti is that he kept wombats in his garden to whom he addressed poetry. This is just one of the stories in this entertaining book that brings together two of mankind's great loves: animals and the garden. This study unveils the armadillos owned by merchants in London in the 18th century that were fed on earthworms, as well as Queen Charlotte's zebra, which was accommodated...
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