num_pages: 159
description: Menagerie Manor is Gerald Durrell's account of how he set up his zoo in Jersey. Surrounded by a team of devoted helpers, this is a tale of teamwork and devotion to the cause. Besides the human dramas, Durrell reveals a host of fascinating practical details about animal health and behaviour, as well as stories of the individual animals themselves. This is an extremely entertaining and informative book chronicling the fulfilment of Gerald Durrell's lifelong ambition.
language: English
title: Menagerie Manor
titlecomplete: Menagerie Manor
genres: Travel, Animals, Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Wildlife, Science, Natural History, Nature, Biography
ratings_count: 1604
places: Jersey
series: The Zoo Memoirs 
publisher: House of Stratus Ltd