Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments

by Eric Ames

The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people, animals, and artifacts gathered from all corners of the globe. The culmination of Hagenbeck's commercial ventures was the opening of his Tierpark near Hamburg in 1907, a dazzling assemblage of constructed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988339
• ISBN13: 9780295988337
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher