Menagerie Manor

Menagerie Manor was a book by Gerald Durrell, 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.


Gerald Durrell
Institutions associated with
  • Durrell Wildlife Park
  • Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
  • EcoHealth Alliance
  • Wildlife Preservation Canada
  • Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
  • Madagascar Fauna Group
  • Programme for Belize
  • World Land Trust
  • World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival
Species associations
  • Aye-Aye
  • Gorilla
  • Mauritius Kestrel
  • Pink Pigeon
  • Pygmy hog
  • Rockfowl
  • St. Lucia Parrot
  • Volcano rabbit
Books authored
  • The Overloaded Ark
  • Three Singles to Adventure
  • The Bafut Beagles
  • The New Noah
  • The Drunken Forest
  • My Family and Other Animals
  • Encounters with Animals
  • A Zoo in My Luggage
  • The Whispering Land
  • Island Zoo
  • A Look at Zoos
  • Menagerie Manor
  • Two in the Bush
  • The Donkey Rustlers
  • Rosy is My Relative
  • Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
  • Fillets of Plaice
  • Catch Me a Colobus
  • Beasts in My Belfry
  • The Talking Parcel
  • The Stationary Ark
  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
  • The Garden of the Gods
  • The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
  • The Mockery Bird
  • Ark on the Move
  • The Amateur Naturalist
  • How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist
  • Durrell in Russia
  • The Fantastic Flying Journey
  • The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure
  • The Ark's Anniversary
  • Keeper
  • Toby the Tortoise
  • Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories
  • The Aye-Aye and I
  • Puppy Tales
  • The Best of Gerald Durrell
Illustrators
  • Ralph Thompson
  • Edward Mortelmans
  • Peter Barrett
  • Graham Percy
  • Keith West
  • Cliff Wright
Famous TV series
  • Two in the Bush
  • Catch Me a Colobus
  • The Garden of the Gods
  • The Stationary Ark
  • Ark on the Move
  • The Amateur Naturalist
  • Ourselves and Other Animals
  • Durrell in Russia
Durrell family
  • Lawrence Samuel Durrell (father)
  • Louisa Dixie Durrell (mother)
  • Lawrence Durrell
  • Margaret Durrell
  • Jacquie Durrell
  • Lee McGeorge Durrell
Notable others
  • Theodore Stephanides
  • Douglas Botting
  • Achirimbi II

Famous quotes containing the word menagerie:

    “This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)