Beasts in My Belfry (A Bevy of Beasts)

✍ Scribed by Durrell, Gerald

• Book ID: 109538836
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 127 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781447214090

✦ Synopsis

Over a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ventriloquism, and Teddy the brown bear, with whom the young Durrell sings duets. This is a charming account of Gerald Durrell's first job as a student keeper in Whipsnade Park in 1945. With notebook and pen in hand, the eager young Durrell observes his co-workers and animal charges alike. Whether getting dirty mucking out the buffalo enclosure or attempting to cajole a jitter-bugging gnus into a transportation crate, life at the zoo is certainly never boring.