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A zoo in my luggage, Gerald Durrell

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memoirs

A zoo in my luggage

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Gerald Durrell

The Zoo Memoirs Series, Book 1

Gerald Durrell provides a colourful, first-hand account of his six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals. Aided by the Fon of Bafut, who houses the collection, Durrell amasses more than 250 animals. He struggles to find a home for the animals back in England, until a stroke of luck leads him to Jersey, and the eventual founding of Durrell Wildlife Park (now Jersey Zoo)

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