A Zoo in My Luggage (The Zoo Memoirs)

Product Description

A British naturalist and his spouse purchase a menagerie of animals and arrange their very own zoo on this pleasant memoir by the writer of the Corfu Trilogy.
For a few years I had needed to begin a zoo. . . . Any cheap individual smitten with an ambition of this type would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. However all through my life I’ve not often if ever achieved what I needed by tackling it in a logical vogue.
 
After a decade of supplying creatures for different individuals’s zoos, in 1957 Gerald Durrell and his spouse set off on an adventurous journey to the Cameroons in West Africa, the place they collected quite a few mammals, birds, and reptiles.
 
The wild nature of the animals created fairly a little bit of chaos, however the Durrells’ issues actually started after they tried to return to Britain with their unique new mates. Not solely did they should get them safely residence, additionally they needed to discover someplace in a position and—extra importantly—prepared to deal with them.
 
Instructed with wit and a zest for all issues furry and feathered, Durrell’s A Zoo in My Baggage is an excellent account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation got here to discovered a brand new sort of zoo.
 
This book options an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell together with uncommon photographs from the writer’s property.
 

From the Writer

From the Illustrated Biography

Durrell Round 10 Years Previous

Durrell, round ten years outdated, in typical pure historical past “exploration” mode—wellies, amassing bag, strolling stick, and his loyal canine, Roger, on the prepared. Roger traveled with the household after they went to Corfu in 1935 and after they returned to England in 1939; he and Durrell had been inseparable companions.

Durrell Talks

Durrell usually gave “illustrated” talks about his expeditions, dropped at life by lightning-quick sketches of a few of the animals he had nurtured throughout the lengthy months spent within the bush. On the 1954 launch of his third guide, The Bafut Beagles, about his second journey to the Cameroons, he introduced a sketch of an African brush-tailed porcupine. His first two books, The Overloaded Ark (about his first journey to the Cameroons) and Three Singles to Journey (about an expedition to British Guiana), seem on the stand.

Durrell Statue

A bronze statue of Durrell by sculptor John Doubleday stands on the entrance to Jersey Zoo, now known as Durrell Wildlife Park. It was erected in 1999, the identical yr that the belief was renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Belief in Durrell’s honor.

(Photograph courtesy of Gregory Guida.)

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MQFNRT2
Writer ‏ : ‎ Open Highway Media (November 29, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 9.0 MB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Smart ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 233 pages