DURRELL, Gerald.

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Menagerie Manor. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For James with best wishes Gerald Durrell".Durrell, the brother of the novelist Lawrence, was a naturalist and an important leader in the early conservation movement, gaining fame for his books about life as a zookeeper. This volume recounts his establishment of the Jersey Zoological Park, which became one of the world's leading small zoos and a model for other captive breeding programmes.

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