Download or read book Woodland written by John Bierlein and published by Historylink / Woodland Park Zoo. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the history of Woodland Park Zoo from its nineteenth-century beginnings as a park originally carved from the wilderness north of downtown Seattle to promote a nearby real estate development. As Seattle grew, its zoo engendered civic pride and the animals in its growing collection became local personalities. By the 1970s, the zoo emerged as an international pioneer in zoo design. Lavishly illustrated, Woodland provides a narrative of changing ideas about the relationship between humans and animals, and a fond look at the zoo's animals and the people who care for them.