The Wild Within: Histories of a Landmark British Zoo

Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world’s oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation. In The Wild Within, Andrew Flack uses the experiences of the Bristol Zoo to explore the complex and ever-changing relationship between human and beast, which in many cases has altered radically over time.

Flack recounts a history in which categories and identities combined, converged, and came into conflict, as the animals at Bristol pr...