Menagerie Manor
Author | : Gerald Durrell |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2011-12-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781447214205 |
ISBN-13 | : 144721420X |
Rating | : 4/5 (20X Downloads) |
Download or read book Menagerie Manor written by Gerald Durrell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up . . . I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo. Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the much-loved conservationist and author Gerald Durrell fulfilled his lifelong ambition by founding his own private sanctuary for endangered species in Jersey with the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager. With a foreword by Lee Durrell, Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, this book about the trials and wonders of living in the middle of a zoo is a classic that will continue to bring pleasure to those who grew up reading Durrell, and deserves a whole new readership.