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Author Barnard, Timothy

Title Singaporean Creatures Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City
Published Singapore : NUS Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (288 p.)
Contents Cover -- half-title page -- full-title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Images -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Tilapia, Travel and the Making of a Singaporean Creature -- Chapter 2 -- One Drawback of Tropical Living -- Chapter 3 -- Mosquitoes, Public Health and the Construction of a Modern Society -- Chapter 4 -- A Cultural History of Fear, Fascination, Fantasy and Crocodiles in Singapore -- Chapter 5 -- Too Much Monkey Business -- Chapter 6 -- Songbirds in a Garden City -- Chapter 7 -- Marine Life in Service of the State at Public Aquariums and Oceanariums in Singapore
Chapter 8 -- Nation, Nature and the Singapore Zoological Gardens, 1973-2018 -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
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Powell, Miles Alexander
Soh, Esmond
Tarulevicz, Nicole
Yip, Jennifer
Zakaria, Faizah
ISBN 9789813252394
9813252391