A Zoo in My Luggage

A British naturalist founds a zoo in this memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy-the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu.

For many years I had wanted to start a zoo. . . . Any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

After a decade of supplying creatures for other people's z...