FOREWORD by Lee Durrell; EXPLANATION; CHAPTER ONE -- MENAGERIE MANOR; CHAPTER TWO -- A PORCUPINE IN THE PARISH; CHAPTER THREE -- THE COLD-BLOODED COHORT; CHAPTER FOUR -- CLAUDIUS AMONG THE CLOCHES; CHAPTER FIVE -- THE NIGHTINGALE TOUCH; CHAPTER SIX -- LOVE AND MARRIAGE; CHAPTER SEVEN -- A GORILLA IN THE GUEST-ROOM; CHAPTER EIGHT -- ANIMALS IN TRUST; FINAL DEMAND; DURRELL'S LEGACY; A MESSAGE FROM THE DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST.
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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 wellknown and much-loved conservationist and author, Gerald Durrell, fulfilled a lifelong ambition by founding his very own private zoo in Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows. The reader is introduced to the village idiocy of Trumpy, t.
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Menagerie manor.
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184024593X
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Jersey Zoological Park (Trinity, Jersey)-- History.