Menagerie Manor

With his unfailing charm, Gerald Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on teh English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wide, 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--Trumpy the gray-winged trumpeter and village idiot; Claudius the tapir and his riotous escape; Delilah the rabble rousing African crested porcupine' and a whole assortment of orangutans, lions, reptiles, and other creatures. 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.