Zoo In My Luggage

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' For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.. .any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first & obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage" is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon he & his wife collected numerous mammals birds & reptiles including Cholmondely the chimpanzee & Bug-eye the bush-baby. But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able &
- most of all
- willing to house them. Told with wit & a zest for all things furry & feathered Gerald Durrell's "A Zoo in My Luggage" is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo."