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Introduction: Under the sign of Hagenbeck -- The business of collecting -- The living habitat -- Hagenbeck's turn to fiction -- The art of Hagenbeck's zoo -- The park and the cinema -- Conclusion: The ...

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THE name of Carl Hagenbeck has attained such world-wide celebrity that a volume from the pen of the great animal-dealer and animal-tamer must surely receive a hearty welcome from the reading-public.

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