One summer afternoon in northern England in 1946, when Ann Colley was a child, she met a man from Czechoslovakia named Dr. Novak. This encounter launched her lifelong fascination with Central and East
In their quest for the sublime, Victorian tourists loved mountains to death. If the British couldn't go to the Alps in the 19th century, they saw them in such popular London shows as Ascent of Mont Bl
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchestera€?s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and
