Pan Books
Part of the sequence of autobiographical books that begins with My Family and Other Animals. In this one Durrell starts working in London Zoo and somehow manages to resist the eemptation to put on a ripped old uniform leaping out from behind the lion enclosure only tell zoo visitors tall stories about how savage and dangerous the lions are.
A Bevy of Beasts
A Lusk of Lions
A Triumph of Tigers
A Plash of Polars
A Gallivant of Gnus
A Bumble of Bears
A Loom of Giraffe
A Superiority of Camels
Odd-Beast Boy
Beasts in My Belfry
Epilogue