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E.S. Turner: The Tower Menagerie, 24 July 2003
The Tower Menagerie: Being the Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts
by Daniel Hahn.
Simon and Schuster, 260 pp., £15.99, March 2003,0 7432 2081 1 Show More
by Daniel Hahn.
Simon and Schuster, 260 pp., £15.99, March 2003,
“... of offal brought by the barge-load for his beasts’ consumption. His master of the bears was Edward Alleyn, more reputably known as the founder of Dulwich College. The King took a personal interest in the breeding of lions and ‘even designed a nipple for a bottle that one fading cub might suckle from’. Sometimes the lions had to be encouraged with ... ”