How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one other existed across the w
Zoo Quest heralded the start of a remarkable career in broadcasting, and changed the way we viewed the natural world forever. Written with his trademark wit and
In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehi