Postcards from the Zoo: Animal Tales from a 25-year Zoo Safari
by Clements, Darill
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0732272394
- ISBN 13
- 9780732272395
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About This Item
HarperCollins, Pymble, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographs. Secondhand copy, no damage to the book, no annotations, illustrated with three sections of photography, mostly black and white, by Rick Stevens. In this book the author reflects on 1/4 of a century of behind-the-scenes life at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and the Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. XII, 224, [4] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0732272394. ISBN/EAN: 9780732272395. Inventory No: 0281770. . 9780732272395
Reviews
On Dec 30 2018, a reader said:
3.5★s
Postcards from the Zoo is a memoir by Australian dancer, teacher, secretary and author, Darill Clements of her twenty-five years as Taronga Zoo's Public Relations Officer. In her foreward, she says: "For my 25 Zoo years, it was the animals that were my teachers. It was always the animals that delighted, surprised, enlightened, energised, made me laugh and, of course, sometimes saddened me. They inspired me and gave me a fund of stories I ultimately needed to write down and share … with great fondness, a fair dose of anthropomorphism and with elephant-sized gratitude to the animals, and to my wonderful former zoo colleagues and my friends in the local and international media, that I recall my days at Taronga and Western Plains Zoos."
As well as 24 glossy pages of photos (some in colour) by award-winning photographer, Rick Stevens, there are many anecdotes, arranged roughly into sections, with clever puns for chapter headings. They cover daily life in the zoos, special occasions, and publicity events. Clements covers breeding, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation for rerelease, transfer to other zoos (intrastate, interstate and international), and the constant regeneration of the zoos, the evolution of the exhibits.
Into the main text are inserted cut-in "fact" pages on various animals, informative and interesting, but also the only irritating feature of the book is that they often appear mid-sentence, then themselves end on the page mid-sentence, thus interrupting the flow of reading. Certainly an entertaining read which prompts a long-overdue visit to the zoo.
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0281770
- Title
- Postcards from the Zoo: Animal Tales from a 25-year Zoo Safari
- Author
- Clements, Darill
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0732272394
- ISBN 13
- 9780732272395
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Pymble
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Taronga Western Plains zoo New South Wales biography Animals & Birds; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. Photographs Unbranded ISBN: 0732272394 EAN: 9780732272395 Clements, Darill Postcards from the Zoo: Animal Tales from a 25-year Zoo
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