Publisher's Synopsis
"Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up...I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo." This is the hugely entertaining account of how the much-loved conservationist and author, Gerald Durrell, fulfilled his lifelong ambition by founding his own private sanctuary for endangered species in Jersey, with the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager.
