Menagerie Manor
Durrell, Gerald Malcolm
Thompson, Ralph (ILT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrells beloved classic My Family and Other Animals and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoos unusual animal inhabitants.
AUTHOR BIO
Gerald Durrell (19251995) is the author of My Family and Other Animals and more than twenty-five nature books.
BOOK REVIEWS
This book is a certain joy. (New Statesman, London)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0143038532
ISBN(13-digit): 9780143038535
Dewey Decimal: 590.73/42341
Library of Congress: 2006050323
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 180
Paper Weight (lb): 0.32 lb
