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. A series of often hysterical anecdotes from the first few years in the life of durrell s jersey zoo, the pages trip through the fingers, many of them adorned with wonderful drawings. Menagerie manor is sure to delight fans of durrells beloved classic my family and other animals the inspiration for the durrells in corfu on masterpiece pbs and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. Gerald durrell project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Read the corfu trilogy my family and other animals. In 1959, on the grounds of an old manor house on the channel island of jersey, durrell finally opens the jersey zoonow known as the durrell wildlife park.
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