Jeremy & Amy. Jeremy Keeling with Rick Broadbent - Softcover

Jeremy Keeling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190759518X ISBN 13: 9781907595189

Publisher: Short Books, 2011

Synopsis

Jeremy Keeling first met Amy, an orang-utan abandoned by his mother, when he was looking after the private menagerie of music impresario Gordon Mills. A friendship was forged that would become the defining relationship of both their lives. One day, when Jeremy was driving along with one-year-old Amy sitting beside him in the passenger seat, he fell asleep at the wheel and caused a horrific car crash. The first policeman on the scene crawled into the wreckage where he was staggered to see a hairy, non-human hand cradling Jeremy's head amid the glass and twisted metal: having been saved by Jeremy, Amy now refused to let him go. For Jeremy, it was to be a long convalescence, but he was able to repay his debt to Amy when he joined forces with Jim Cronin, a tough-talking primate-lover from the Bronx, who shared his vision of creating a sanctuary for abused and abandoned monkeys. Pooling their knowledge, passion and meagre resources, the two men took on a derelict pig farm in Dorset and, over the next twenty years, slowly transformed it into a 65-acre, cage-less sanctuary for beleaguered primates, rescued from poachers, photographers and scientists on daring raids. Monkey World is now internationally famous and attracts some 800,000 visitors a year.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeremy Keeling is the Animal Director and co-founder of Monkey World in Dorset. He lives in Dorset, at Monkey World.

Review:

"Enchanting and touching" Mail on Sunday "Amy is a delight" Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Short Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 190759518X
• ISBN 13: 9781907595189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320