We bought a zoo
By: Benjamin Mee.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781602860483
Subjects: Mee, Benjamin; Dartmoor Wildlife Park; Zoo directors -- Great Britain -- Biography; Zoos -- England -- Dartmoor; Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: "A memoir"--Jacket.

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.