We bought a zoo : the amazing true story of a broken-down zoo, and the 200 animals that changed a family forever / Benjamin Mee.
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TextPublication details: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008Description: 313 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780007274864 ; 0007274866 Subject(s): Mee, Benjamin | Zoo directors -- England -- Dartmoor -- Biography | Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- BiographyDDC classification: 590.7342353092 Summary: Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait. Last October, Ben and his wife, Katherine moved with their two young children, Ben's 76 year-old mother and his brother, into a run-down zoo on the edge of Dartmoor which they had bought, and found themselves responsible for 200 animals including four huge tigers, lions, pumas, three massive bears, a tapir and a wolf pack. Ben's story will both move and entertain -- charting, simultaneously, the family's attempts to improve the animals' lives, the build-up to the Zoo's official reopening, as well as Katherine's decline with a brain tumour, her final days, and how the family went on.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 590.73 MEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111036322434 |
Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait. Last October, Ben and his wife, Katherine moved with their two young children, Ben's 76 year-old mother and his brother, into a run-down zoo on the edge of Dartmoor which they had bought, and found themselves responsible for 200 animals including four huge tigers, lions, pumas, three massive bears, a tapir and a wolf pack. Ben's story will both move and entertain -- charting, simultaneously, the family's attempts to improve the animals' lives, the build-up to the Zoo's official reopening, as well as Katherine's decline with a brain tumour, her final days, and how the family went on.
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