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BL
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| Record Number
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981057
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b735427
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| Main Entry
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Durrell, Gerald,1925-1995.
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| Title & Author
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Menagerie manor /\ Gerald Durrell.
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester :: Summersdale,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Revival
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1 online resource (1 volume).
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| ISBN
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1429494522
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: 1848394063
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: 9781429494526
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: 9781848394063
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| Notes
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Originally published: London: Hart-Davis, 1964.
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| Contents
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FOREWORD by Lee Durrell; EXPLANATION; CHAPTER ONE -- MENAGERIE MANOR; CHAPTER TWO -- A PORCUPINE IN THE PARISH; CHAPTER THREE -- THE COLD-BLOODED COHORT; CHAPTER FOUR -- CLAUDIUS AMONG THE CLOCHES; CHAPTER FIVE -- THE NIGHTINGALE TOUCH; CHAPTER SIX -- LOVE AND MARRIAGE; CHAPTER SEVEN -- A GORILLA IN THE GUEST-ROOM; CHAPTER EIGHT -- ANIMALS IN TRUST; FINAL DEMAND; DURRELL'S LEGACY; A MESSAGE FROM THE DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST.
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| Abstract
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Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up ... I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo.'Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the wellknown and much-loved conservationist and author, Gerald Durrell, fulfilled a lifelong ambition by founding his very own private zoo in Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows. The reader is introduced to the village idiocy of Trumpy, t.
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Jersey Zoological Park (Trinity, Jersey)-- History.
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Jersey Zoological Park (Trinity, Jersey)
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Science.
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Zoology.
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NATURE-- Animals-- General.
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NATURE-- Animals-- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Zoology-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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590.7342341
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QL77.T7D8 2007eb
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