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Original Title:	Menagerie Manor
ISBN:	0143038532 (ISBN13: 9780143038535)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Jersey(United Kingdom)

Menagerie Manor

Gerald Durrell

Paperback | Pages: 180 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 1343 Users | 76 Reviews

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Title	:	Menagerie Manor
Author	:	Gerald Durrell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2007 by Penguin Books (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Animals. Humor

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Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrell’s beloved classic My Family and Other Animals and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. 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 Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoo’s unusual animal inhabitants.

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This is some of the most vivid and imaginative writing Ive experienced in a long time. I could completely envision the animals and their quirky personalities. I laughed out loud on many occasions!

Durrell is a self-deprecating, kindly and often hilarious writer, whose love for animals shines throughout this book. The book is dated though. Would conscientious zoo owners now buy from disreputable animal dealers, or try and raise money on the sort of flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants basis that he did? I also wondered about the size of the cages in his zoo and levels of stimulation provided for the animals. I felt he would have explored these issues were they important to him, but they were



Lovely, heartwarming ❤

Although the stories of the animals are appalling by today's standards, Gerald Durrell is still an amazing storyteller with his heart in the right place. Durrell and his family open a zoo on the Jersey Island where they are committed to procuring endangered species and (hopefully) breeding them into non-extinction. Animals are adorable, humans are clueless and all works out well in the end.

This was a fun book to read about a man starting his own zoo! The writing style is humorous, and the illustrations help you to understand how the various animals behave!

This brilliant chronicle narrates the first couple of years at Durrell's zoo in Jersey (the largest of the Channel Islands) and all the mayhem that came with! An interesting read that is jam-packed with his usual wit and humour. The description of the newly acquired primates were most charming. Highly recommend; as any other Durrell book I have ever read!