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Plot Summary of A Zoo in My Luggage
""A Zoo in my Luggage" is a story about an expedition for collecting
animals from West Africa in Cameroon. The story started when Gerald Durrell and his wife decided to go to Cameroon and collect as much animals as they will have their own zoo.

During the expedtion in Cameroon, they stayed in the Fon of Bafut's
Resthouse. After their stay in Cameroon, they collected more than 250 specimens which some of them were very rare. The major problem was to find a place where to make a zoo. After a year of trying to find a place, at last, he found a place in Jersey. The place where to make the zoo, was found by the help of Hugh Fraser. "

Karl Micallef, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Animal story? Yes
Kind of animal: - all kinds of animals
Outdoors story Yes
Exploring: - animal watching/hunting
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - explorer
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity - White
How sensitive is this person? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Jungles? Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Pictures/Illustrations? - A few 1-5 B&W
How much dialogue in bio? - mostly dialog
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Gerald Durrell Resident Scholar Profiles

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SCHOLARS:
Farzana Ahmed  Karl Micallef  


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