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...
On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens… In an incredibly short space of time, a number of...
