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We bought a zoo / Benjamin Mee.

Mee, Benjamin. (Author).

Summary:

A former British newspaper columnist describes how he uprooted his family to the English countryside and purchased a dilapidated zoo, home to more than two hundred exotic animals, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money, skeptical staff, family tension, and his wife's devastating illness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1602860483
  • ISBN: 9781602860483
  • Physical Description: 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Weinstein Books, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A memoir"--Jacket.
Subtitle on jacket: The amazing true story of a young family, a broken down zoo, and the 200 wild animals that changed their lives forever.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 In the Beginning 5 -- 2 Adventure Begins 21 -- 3 First Days 51 -- 4 Lean Months 71 -- 5 Katherine 107 -- 6 New Crew 139 -- 7 Animals Are Taking Over the Zoo 177 -- 8 Spending the Money 209 -- 9 Opening Day 245.

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Autobiographies.

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