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Author Mee, Benjamin.

Title We bought a zoo / Benjamin Mee.

Imprint London: Harper, 2012.

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Edition 5th ed.
Description 313 p: col. ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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.
Contents Chapter 1: In the beginning ... --Chapter 2: The advanture begins -- Chapter 3: The first days -- Chapter 4: The lean months -- Chapter 5: Katherine -- Chapter 6: The new crew -- Chapter 7: the animals are taking over the zoo -- Chapter 8: Spending the money -- Chapter 9: opening day -- Epilogue.
Subject Mee, Benjamin.
Dartmoor Wildlife Park.
Zoo directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form: Online version: Mee, Benjamin. We bought a zoo. 1st ed. New York : Weinstein Books, ©2008 (OCoLC)761188005
ISBN 9780007431823