Description

Tortoises vanish from the Madagascar reappear and book in the Bronx Zoo. An useless iguana drifts in a container, expecting its introduction in a Florida courtroom. A viper causes chaos from Ethiopia to Va. In Compromised World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the audience on an unforgettable journey, a dim experience over five years and six continents.   In 1965, Hank Molt, a cheese salesman from Philadelphia, reinvented herself as a “specialist seller in unusual wildlife,” touring the world to gather beautiful lizards for zoos and museums.