''Menagerie Manor'' is a book by
Gerald Durrell
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island o ...
, published in 1964. The book is a collection of pen portraits of some of the creatures of
Gerald Durrell's Zoo - and some of the lessons Durrell learned about making real and sustaining his childhood ambition of having his own Zoo. It officially opened on March 26, 1959. The Manor of the title is
Les Augrès Manor in
Trinity, Jersey
Trinity (french: La Trinité, Jèrriais: ''La Trinneté'') is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is north of St Helier. It has a population of 3,156.''Portrait of the Channel Islands'', Raoul Lemprière, 1970 The par ...
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