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The Stationary Ark - Softcover

Durrell, Gerald

 
9780002167420: The Stationary Ark

Synopsis

An account of setting up the Wildlife Preservation Trust in Jersey, first published in 1976.

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Book Description

From one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists

From the Back Cover

Gerald Durrell was a zoo enthusiast from the age of two when he started collecting everything alive, from minnows to woodlice. When, finally, he decided to set up the Wildlife Preservation Trust in Jersey, he determined that it would be different from those zoos – alas, the majority – to which parents reluctantly take children to ride an elephant and get sick on ice cream, and where animals are simply imprisoned. His would certainly be a place of entertainment, but it would be a research centre, an educational establishment and a conservation unit as well...

"A flow of rib-tickling anecdotes."
YORKSHIRE POST

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