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40-421: The novel is framed as a series of short entries rather than chapters. The writer, who remains anonymous at first, is being held captive by several agencies along with Amanda Ziller, the main subject of his report. Amanda was a member of a traveling circus that one day recruited the eccentric drummer John Paul Ziller, a once famous musician known for his exotic dress and odd mannerisms. Falling immediately in love,

80-413: A flea circus under the grounds that bugs are not technically animals. Also part of the zoo is a tsetse fly encased in amber. During this time Amanda gives birth to a boy, naming him Thor. As the hot dog stand gains traction, a man who goes by the name of Marx Marvelous gets himself arrested for sneaking into a zoo and setting the baboons free, which he reveals to have done because he knew it would attract

120-692: A portrait of the period. In the book a baboon is stolen from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Shortly after publication someone did actually steal a baboon from the Zoo. Doubleday (publisher) Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897. By 1947, it was the largest book publisher in the United States. It published

160-628: A sealed vault. Purcell takes advantage of the sudden chaos to sneak out of the city with the Corpse. He manages to ship it back to the Zillers' restaurant, arriving there himself shortly after. The group spends several days pondering what to do with the Corpse. Purcell wishes to reveal it to the world, thus causing the collapse of Christianity and likely a large part of society as a whole. Marvelous wishes to blackmail high-ranking church and government officials in order to influence them to do more good in

200-614: A secret organization of Catholic assassins known as the Order of the Felicitate, which he accomplished by assuming the identity of a deceased monk he had stumbled upon. After spending over a year at the monastery, he travels with the organization to the Vatican City, where an unexpected earthquake damages the catacombs in which he slept and inadvertently reveals the corpse of Jesus Christ, which had until then been stored underground in

240-570: A separate group. In 1996, Doubleday founded the Christian publisher WaterBrook Press. WaterBrook acquired Harold Shaw Publishers in 2000 and Multnomah Publishers in 2006. In late 2008 and early 2009, Doubleday imprint merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In October 2008, Doubleday laid off about 10% of its staff (16 people) across all departments. That December,

280-409: A vice-president of the company. The partnership ended in 1900. McClure and John Sanborn Phillips , the co-founder of his magazine, formed McClure, Phillips and Company. Doubleday and Walter Hines Page formed Doubleday, Page & Company . The bestselling novels of Thomas Dixon Jr. , including The Leopard's Spots , 1902 and The Clansman , 1905, "changed a struggling publishing venture into

320-411: Is generally considered the world's first immersion exhibit , a gorilla habitat, which opened in the late 1970s under the direction of zoo architect David Hancocks. Other exhibits include: Woodland Park Zoo has been an active member of environmental and ecological conservation efforts across the U.S. Besides operating its own educational programs for school children, the park also cooperates with many of

360-478: Is taken by the head of the Felicitate to an unknown fate. Marx's report concludes by saying he has given his entire manuscript to Amanda, and thus if it has survived the ordeal then it means Amanda is still alive. In this novel, the author uses nonlinear plot progression in the tone of a first-person diary to express his views on religion and other topics. A major theme of the novel is the mummified corpse of Jesus Christ and Western Civilization's belief and faith in

400-421: Is the recipient of over 65 awards across multiple categories. The zoo has around 900 animals from 250 species and the zoo has over 1 million visitors a year. Occupying the western half of Woodland Park , the zoo began as a small menagerie on the estate of Guy C. Phinney , a Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real estate developer. Six years after Phinney's death, on December 28, 1899, Phinney's wife sold

440-488: The 188-acre (76 ha) Woodland Park to the city for $ 5,000 in cash and the assumption of a $ 95,000 mortgage . The sum was so large that then-mayor W. D. Wood vetoed the acquisition, only to be later overruled by the city council . In 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year the collection of the private Leschi Park menagerie

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480-627: The 1970s and 1980s, Doubleday sold the broadcasting division in 1986. Nelson Doubleday Jr. succeeded John Sargent as president and CEO from 1978 to 1985. In 1976, Doubleday bought paperback publisher Dell Publishing . In 1980, the company bought the New York Mets baseball team. The Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series in 1986 in a seven-game contest. In 1981, Doubleday promoted James R. McLaughlin to

520-634: The Broadway, Doubleday Business, Doubleday Religion, and WaterBrook Multnomah divisions were moved to Crown Publishing Group , a subsidiary of Random House in Manhattan . The following are imprints that exist or have existed under Doubleday: Woodland Park Zoo Woodland Park Zoo is a wildlife conservation organization and zoological garden located in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle , Washington , United States. The zoo

560-417: The Corpse all boarded the balloon and took off. The report concludes by saying that John Paul faced certain death within 24 hours due to the extreme exposure from the sun, after which his body, along with Mon Cul's and the Corpse's, would eventually disintegrate entirely. Soon after, Amanda and Marx prepare to leave the restaurant. Amanda, now pregnant once more, leaves for unknown adventures, while Marvelous

600-467: The Corpse with them. While searching for clues, Marx and Amanda find a newspaper clipping which details the launch of a large weather balloon which would take a group of five baboons to the edge of space. Shortly thereafter, a government agent shows a report to the two which reveals that Purcell and John Paul had snuck onto the base carrying the balloon and had set the baboons free. Purcell was shot and killed while trying to flee, but John Paul, Mon Cul, and

640-548: The Mets to Wilpon for $ 135 million after a feud over the monetary value of the team. In 1988, portions of the firm became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998. Doubleday was combined in a group with Broadway Books , Anchor Books was combined with Vintage Books as a division of Knopf , while Bantam and Dell became

680-540: The New York office. The senior editors, holdovers from when Doubleday was a Roman Catholic publishing house, did not approve, but Nichols encouraged Robbins to keep writing. When he had 70 pages, Nichols tried them again on New York, but the senior editors were still unconvinced. It wasn't until 1970 that Doubleday finally accepted the manuscript and in 1971 published 6,000 copies of Another Roadside Attraction . In his memoir, Robbins states that he did not want to describe

720-583: The UK and the Netherlands. Nelson Doubleday Jr. sold the publishing company to Bertelsmann in 1986 for a reported $ 475 million, with James R. McLaughlin resigning on December 17, 1986. After the purchase, Bertelsmann sold Laidlaw to Macmillan Inc. The sale of Doubleday to Bertelsmann did not include the Mets, which Nelson Doubleday and minority owner Fred Wilpon had purchased from Doubleday & Company for $ 85 million. In 2002 , Doubleday sold his stake in

760-434: The Zillers' attention. The couple bail him out of jail and hire him to help manage the restaurant. A man of science, Marvelous reveals to Amanda that he believes Christianity is on the verge of collapse and will soon transition to a new religion, with the Zillers playing some sort of key role. During this time, the trio intermittently receive letters from John Paul's friend Plucky Purcell, who explains that he has infiltrated

800-421: The acoustic treatment of the exhibit to make the environment soft and quiet. Initially the idea was heavily criticized, with many experts being concerned about the maintenance of vegetation and lack of visibility, as well as the temperate environment of Washington negatively affecting the soil. The idea eventually became the standard for naturalistic exhibits, inspiring many imitators and replicas worldwide. As of

840-519: The divinity of Jesus Christ. In his memoir, Robbins states that he wanted to question what would happen to Western Civilization if it could be demonstrated that Jesus was not immortal. In 1966, Doubleday's West Coast Editor Luthor Nichols contacted Robbins to ask him to write a book on Northwest Art. Instead, Robbins told Nichols he wanted to write a novel and pitched the idea of what was to become Another Roadside Attraction . In 1967 Robbins mailed off 30 pages of his novel to Nichols who sent them on to

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880-658: The empire that Doubleday was to become". At the same time, Doubleday helped Dixon launch his writing career. Page and Dixon were both from North Carolina and had known each other in Raleigh, North Carolina . In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to Garden City, New York , on Long Island . The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street. Co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page

920-471: The first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 ( McClure Syndicate ) and the monthly McClure's Magazine in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling , a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W. Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad . Theodore Roosevelt Jr. later served as

960-541: The higher education institutions in state, such as the University of Washington . On January 5, 2010, the zoo announced that due to the "difficult economy," it would be closing its Night Exhibit. ZooTunes, a summer concert series, has been held at the zoo since 1983 and raises funds for various zoo programs and activities. For the event, the zoo's North Meadow is turned into an outdoor amphitheater that accommodates 3,700 attendees. From 1953 to 1968, Woodland Park Zoo

1000-797: The presidency of Dell Publishing. Sales slowed in the early 1980s and earnings fell precipitously. Doubleday Jr., brought James McLaughlin over (from subsidiary Dell) to help streamline and downsize. McLaughlin went on to succeed Doubleday Jr., as president and CEO, with Doubleday Jr., becoming chairman of the board. By 1986, the firm was a fully integrated international communications company, doing trade publishing, mass-market paperback publishing, book clubs, and book manufacturing, together with ventures in broadcasting and advertising. The company had offices in London and Paris and wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada , Australia, and New Zealand, with joint ventures in

1040-406: The sixties in this novel but to re-create them on the page, "to mirror in style as well as content their mood, their palette, their extremes, their vibrations, their profundity, their silliness and whimsy." Robbins also said he used a collage technique—he skimmed media such as the underground press, KRAB radio program guides, broadsides, fliers for concerts to try and pluck out items that might capture

1080-621: The summer of 2010 , the zoo featured 92 acres (37 ha) of exhibits, public spaces, parking, and playgrounds. Open to the public daily, it received 1.05 million visitors in 2006. Its collection includes: Woodland Park Zoo is a recipient of several Best National Exhibit awards from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums , and ranks second after the Bronx Zoo in New York City for the number received. Woodland Park Zoo created what

1120-509: The then-director of the Woodland Park Zoo, redesigned the zoo's gorilla exhibit to form what became referred to as landscape immersion exhibits , in which animals would become immersed in landscapes that represented their natural habitats as closely as possible, while visitors would also be immersed in the same replicated habitat. The habitat was designed with natural plants and rockwork, with special consideration being put towards

1160-574: The thirties. In 1944, Doubleday, Doran acquired the Philadelphia medical publisher Blakiston. In 1946, the company became Doubleday and Company . Nelson Doubleday resigned as president, but continued as chairman of the board until his death on January 11, 1949. Douglas Black took over as president from 1946 to 1963. His tenure attracted numerous public figures to the publishing company, including Dwight D. Eisenhower , Harry S. Truman , Douglas MacArthur , Robert Taft , and André Malraux . He

1200-496: The two soon married and resigned from the troupe to live in an abandoned restaurant in Skagit County, Washington. John brings Mon Cul, his pet baboon, to stay with them. The couple decide to revive the restaurant as a hot dog stand and roadside zoo. Although they are both averse to keeping animals captive, they compromise by keeping a group of garter snakes native to Skagit County under the grounds of preservation, as well as

1240-572: The work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009, Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group , which, as of 2018, is part of Penguin Random House . The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure . McClure had founded

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1280-454: The world. Amanda wishes to give it a proper burial on Bow Wow mountain and nothing more. John Paul remains silent. After taking a day to think separately about the issue, the group reconvenes to discover that the Felicitate, along with other government officials, have begun to close in on the restaurant. The following morning, Marx - who reveals himself as the writer - awakens to discover that Purcell and John Paul have fled, taking Mon Cul and

1320-625: The years preceding the construction of Seattle Center and the expansion of major-league professional sports into the city. His popularity is credited with helping the zoo obtain funding to build a new primate house. Anthropologist Dawn Prince-Hughes spent many years working at Woodland Park Zoo and observing the western lowland gorillas there, which she wrote about in her book Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism . Two lionesses named Busela (Seyla) and Nobuhle (Nabu) were transferred from

1360-537: The zoo to Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, Utah , to breed with the Montgomery Zoo 's two male lions, Baron and Vulcan. On February 24, 2016, Nabu gave birth to two males, Brutus and Titus, and a female, Calliope. Baron fathered the three cubs. In December 2015, a baby gorilla, Yola, was born at the zoo. She is the first child of Nadiri who was also born there. On June 20, 2017, the baby giraffe Lulu

1400-620: Was a strong opponent of censorship and felt that it was his responsibility to the American public to publish controversial titles. Black also expanded Doubleday's publishing program by opening two new printing plants; creating a new line of quality paperbacks, under the imprint Anchor Books; founding mail-order subscription book clubs in its book club division; opening 30 new retail stores in 25 cities; and opening new editorial offices in San Francisco, London, and Paris. By 1947, Doubleday

1440-502: Was born, standing 5'7" and weighing 149 lbs. The daughter of Tufani and Dave, she is a mixture of the reticulated and South African giraffe subspecies. Her naming rights were auctioned off at the zoo's Jungle Safari Party fundraiser. A male snow leopard cub was also born at the zoo that summer; he was given the name of Aibeck, meaning "long life" in Kyrgyz . In July and October 2022 two brown bear cubs, Juniper and Fern, were transferred to

1480-592: Was home to Bobo , a western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla , the same species as the gorillas currently living at the zoo). Bobo was acquired from the Lowman family of Anacortes, Washington , who had purchased the gorilla as an infant from a hunter in Columbus, Ohio , in 1951 and had raised him in their family home in Anacortes. Bobo drew many visitors to the zoo and was one of Seattle's main attractions in

1520-597: Was moved to Phinney Ridge . An expansion of the zoo was approved in 1968 as part of the Forward Thrust ballot measures and resulted in a master plan designed by architect George Bartholick, which included a lid over Aurora Avenue and new exhibits to the east in Woodland Park. The plan was opposed by local residents and rejected in a citywide ballot initiative in November 1974. In 1975, David Hancocks ,

1560-553: Was named Ambassador to Great Britain in 1916. In 1922, the company founded its juvenile department, the second in the nation, with May Massee as head. The founder's son Nelson Doubleday joined the firm in the same year. In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the George H. Doran Company , creating Doubleday, Doran , then the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world. Doubleday Canada Limited launches in

1600-506: Was the largest publisher in the United States, with annual sales of more than 30 million books. In 1954, Doubleday sold Blakiston to McGraw-Hill . Doubleday's son-in-law John Sargent was president and CEO from 1963 to 1978. In 1964, Doubleday acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw. In 1967, the company purchased the Dallas -based Trigg-Vaughn group of radio and TV stations to create Doubleday Broadcasting. After expanding during

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