Menagerie Manor
by Durrell, Gerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0246636866
- ISBN 13
- 9780246636867
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Synopsis
Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrells 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 zoos unusual animal inhabitants.
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10867
- Title
- Menagerie Manor
- Author
- Durrell, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0246636866
- ISBN 13
- 9780246636867
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- 0246636866
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