Walter Rothschild: The Man, the Museum and the Menagerie

An engaging narrative revealing the life of one of the most eccentric and enthusasitic zoologists of the Victorian era

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families in the world, Walter Rothschild became the best known zoologist of his day—and one of Britain's great eccentrics. A benign and enigmatic figure with a boundless enthusiasm for nature, he amassed the largest single accumulation of zoological specimens ever collected by one man, establishing his own private Museum in 1892, now ...