| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Subtitle on jacket: The amazing true story of a young family, a broken down zoo, and the 200 wild animals that changed their lives forever. |
| Summary |
A former British newspaper columnist describes how he uprooted his family to the English countryside and purchased a dilapidated zoo, home to more than two hundred exotic animals, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money, skeptical staff, family tension, and his wife's devastating illness. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: In the beginning ... --Chapter 2: The advanture begins -- Chapter 3: The first days -- Chapter 4: The lean months -- Chapter 5: Katherine -- Chapter 6: The new crew -- Chapter 7: the animals are taking over the zoo -- Chapter 8: Spending the money -- Chapter 9: opening day -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Mee, Benjamin.
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Zoo directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Zoos -- England -- Dartmoor.
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Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Dartmoor Wildlife Park.
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| ISBN |
9781602860483 |
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1602860483 |
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