04196cam a2200913 4500 524305060 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781504041652 1504041658 B01MQFNRT2 Amazon fd2b0366-cf13-41d9-bda1-27ed93ca4ff3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3030940 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Durrell, Gerald. A Zoo in My Luggage [Libby] : The Zoo Memoirs, Book 1. Open Road Media, 2016. Baboons. Animals. Zoos. family. Africa. explorers. Humor. British. conservationist. lemurs. 1950s. marriage. Monkeys. Autobiography. 20th Century. Jersey. West Africa. England. Great Britain. Zoology. Chimpanzees. Travel. naturalist. travelers. memoir. Personal Memoir. Biological Sciences. exotic animals. nature writing. animal memoir. wildlife preservation. animal collector. animal enthusiast. Channel Island. corfu show. Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. Durrell Wildlife Park. Durrells. Durrells in Corfu. durrells pbs. Jersey Zoo. Lawrence Durrell brother. Bafut. Cameroons. corfu animal show. Fon of Bafut. pbs corfu show. zookeeper memoir. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5472kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 5108kB. Biography & Autobiography. Nature. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A British naturalist and his wife acquire a menagerie of animals and set up their own zoo in this delightful memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy.</b><br /> <i>For many years I had wanted to start a zoo. . . . Any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.</i><br /> <br /> After a decade of supplying creatures for other people's zoos, in 1957 Gerald Durrell and his wife set off on an adventurous journey to the Cameroons in West Africa, where they collected numerous mammals, birds, and reptiles.<br /> <br /> The wild nature of the animals created quite a bit of chaos, but the Durrells' problems really began when they attempted to return to Britain with their exotic new friends. Not only did they have to get them safely home, they also had to find somewhere able and—more importantly—willing to house them.<br /> <br /> Told with wit and a zest for all things furry and feathered, Durrell's <i>A Zoo in My Luggage</i> is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo.<br /> <br /> <i>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author's estate.</i><br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd2b0366-cf13-41d9-bda1-27ed93ca4ff3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd2b0366-cf13-41d9-bda1-27ed93ca4ff3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd2b0366-cf13-41d9-bda1-27ed93ca4ff3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)