Menagerie Manor

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  • Author: Gerald Durrell
  • Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
  • Catalogue: 157622
  • Size: 20x13cm
Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the well known 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, the grey-winged trumpeter, who wakes the zoo every morning; the riotous antics of Claudius the tapir; the moving romance of N’Pongo, an African gorilla; and the antics of a whole menagerie of orangutans, lions, bears, porcupines and other creatures.

Hilariously illustrated by Ralph Thompson, 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.

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