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Books : We Bought a Zoo
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We Bought a Zoo by: Benjamin Mee List Price: £16.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.44 You Save: £10.55 (62%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780007274864 ISBN: 0007274866 Label: HarperCollins Entertainment Manufacturer: HarperCollins Entertainment Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment Studio: HarperCollins Entertainment Sales Rank: 5570 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Brilliant..totally worth the read and the £££I picked this up first in Waterstone's and the first few pages had me smiling and then almost crying. So I bought it on here! Just couldn't put it down, read it cover to cover. Really liked the style of writing, humorous, vulnerable and revealing in that wonderful English way. Felt included in the journey and privvy to the most fascinating parts of the revamp of the zoo and the authors life. I have given this book to 3 friends and I am so impressed with it no doubt it will be making an appearance under several Xmas trees this year! Rating:  - I bought the book!!Exceedingly well written, Benjamin's style grips you from page one. His mother sounds such a wild-card person, l would love to meet her. be honest how many ladies of 76, decide to sell everything they own and go in with their son and buy a Zoo. The Zoo they took on, was in a dire state, and didn't have a licence to let people see any of the animals, so hope of opening soon as they bought it went out of the window. The story tells of his/their ups and downs (and mainly downs), of getting the zoo together, right up to going to the council office and seeing if he had passed all the tests councils require. I read it in 3 days which is quick for me. Very easy to read, and very ... Read More: Rating: - They bought a zoo, you should buy this book!Having visited the place (Dartmoor wildlife park) pre-Mee, I was shocked by the state of the enclosures and the park as a whole. So when I saw that the park had been taken over and that the guy had written a book about his exploits during the renovation and re-opening I was intrigued. This book held me as captive as Mr Mee's animals are (I occasionally escaped to other areas of the house for refreshments etc!), I was unable to put this book down. It is superbly written, filled with interesting titbits of info about animal and human behaviour, adventure, sadness and is sprinkled with humourous moments (I laughed out loud at least 20 times). I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend reading it. |
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