Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"What happens when the charming, animal-obsessed boy of the classic memoirs My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts, and Other Relatives grows up? He founds a zoo, of course. On his third trip to West Africa, he and his wife capture animals for this enterprise. Upon returning to England, however, they have nowhere to put the animals - Cholmondeley the chimpanzee, Bug-eye the bush baby, and others - as managing his menagerie proves to be just...