Tweedledum ’s Reviews > The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland: Forgotten Hero of Natural History > Status Update

If the Emperor Napoleon, when on the road to Moscow with his army in 1812, had condescended to observe the flights of storks and cranes passing over his fated battalions, subsequent events in the politics of Europe might have been very different. These storks and cranes knew of the coming on of a great and terrible winter, the birds hastened towards the south, Napoleon and his army towards the north.

Frank and the rat and the cobra.....
This was so nearly the end of Frank Buckland!