This has probably already been said, but the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine can be used go pretty much go back in time. I went to so many old zoo websites, I can't even count. I'd like to point out on the old website for Adventure Aquarium, they say it's "all of the fun and none of the malaria" when talking about the hippo exhibit-which caught me off guard.
Yes, I've tried it a couple of times for looking at old species lists of zoos but it is a little frustrating with the "page capture" thing and some of the info is not accessible.
You must be joking, right ? This is a site of webpage captures from the late 1990's up to the present. It isn't a time machine to travel back to the late Victorian era.
Well @CheeseChameleon2007 for the reasons I stated above I think it would be highly unlikely that you would find the book as that site covers two decades of digital / webpage based media whereas you are looking for a Victorian era / early twentieth century book.
No , don't worry about it , but I definitely think you will find it or something equally of interest on the site that @Tim May suggested.
The Wayback Machine archive features a lot more than websites. I don't know if they have any books, but the most infamous example of something they have that is not a book is the Dominos App featuring Hatsune Miku.
I can understand that. I remember J.R. Hartley: Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media. My writing group's fiction book was due to be published in March. Hopefully, it will be published by the end of the year. I have been very patient, but I wrote my material about 2 years ago.
Actually, Web Archive, the company that runs the Wayback Machine, has several services that archive books. The Open Library is a free service that works like an actual library, so you can only 'borrow' a book for a short time before returning it. You have to create an account, however. There are also several public-domain books on their website, Wayback Machine , which you can read without an account.
