Jeremy Keeling first met Amy an orang-utan abandoned by his mother when he was looking after the private menagerie of music impresario Gordon Mills. A friendship was forged that would become the defining relationship of both their lives. One day when Jeremy was driving along with one-year-old Amy sitting beside him in the passenger seat he fell asleep at the wheel & caused a horrific car crash. The first policeman on the scene crawled into the wreckage where he was staggered to see a hairy non-human hand cradling Jeremys head amid the glass & twisted metal: having been saved by Jeremy Amy now refused to let him go. For Jeremy it was to be a long convalescence but he was able to repay his debt to Amy when he joined forces with Jim Cronin a tough-talking primate-lover from the Bronx who shared his vision of creating a sanctuary for abused & abandoned monkeys. Pooling their knowledge passion & meagre resources the two men took on a derelict pig farm in Dorset & over the next twenty years slowly transformed it into a 65-acre cage-less sanctuary for beleaguered primates rescued from poachers photographers & scientists on daring raids. Monkey World is now internationally famous & attracts some 800 000 visitors a year.