{"product_id":"9781504041652","title":"A Zoo in My Luggage","description":"\u003cb\u003eA British naturalist and his wife acquire a menagerie of animals and set up their own zoo in this delightful memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor many years I had wanted to start a zoo. . . . Any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After a decade of supplying creatures for other people’s zoos, in 1957 Gerald Durrell and his wife set off on an adventurous journey to the Cameroons in West Africa, where they collected numerous mammals, birds, and reptiles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The wild nature of the animals created quite a bit of chaos, but the Durrells’ problems really began when they attempted to return to Britain with their exotic new friends. Not only did they have to get them safely home, they also had to find somewhere able and—more importantly—willing to house them.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Told with wit and a zest for all things furry and feathered, Durrell’s \u003ci\u003eA Zoo in My Luggage\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127101374704,"sku":"9781504041652","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504041652_p0.jpg?v=1769897509","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504041652","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}