'From magnificent menageries to an apothecary's pet rodent, Christopher Plumb's book is a fascinating look into the role animals played in eighteenth century British lives. Full of great primary research into a wealth of interesting records, this is a work to delight the heart of anyone with a love for how the real Georgians lived.'
Lucy Inglis, author of Georgian London

‘Christopher Plumb's entertaining book fills in the detail of a world only vaguely sensed. It appears that the streets of Georgian London were thronged with exotic animals and Plumb shows that these were more fully a part of the Georgian world than has previously been understood. Exotic animals were commodities to be entertained by and to consume. This book adds not only to our growing understanding of the surprisingly large scale presence of exotic animals in England since the Renaissance but also to our grasp on the textures of life in the always fascinating streets, inns and drawing rooms of Georgian London.’
John Simons, author of The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy: Exotic Animals in Victorian England