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Chargement... The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter: A Memoirpar Holly Robinson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This author has a clear voice and vividly describes the setting of her childhood, but if you like gerbils, you may not like this book. If, like me, you are hoping for a funny animal story, this is not the book for you. The author's father is a naval officer who sets out to breed gerbils partly out of curiousity and partly out of a belief that there is money to be made in this. The gerbils are not pets, and are bred for sale to researchers. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?"That's the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the world's most famous gerbil czar.Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed for curiosity's sake in the family's garage, Donald Robinson's obsession with the "pocket kangaroo" developed into a lifelong passion and second career. Soon the Annapolis-trained Navy commander was breeding gerbils and writing about them for publications ranging from the ever-bouncy Highlights for Children to the erudite Science News. To support his burgeoning business, the family eventually settled on a remote hundred-acre farm with horses, sheep, pygmy goats, peacocks-and nearly nine thousand gerbils.From part-time model for her father's bestselling pet book, How to Raise and Train Pet Gerbils, to full-time employee in the gerbil empire's complex of prefab Sears buildings, Holly was an enthusiastic if often exasperated companion on her father's quest to breed the perfect gerbil. Told with heart, humor, and affection, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter is Holly's ode to a weird and wonderful upbringing and her truly one-of-a-kind father. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)636.935Technology Agriculture & related technologies Animal husbandry Other Mammals Small mammals (rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs) Pet rodentsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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This follows Holly Robinson as a child and teenager, and into the start of college. She grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s and her unorthodox father, while in the Navy, decided to pursue his interest in breeding gerbils, a new type of animal to be potentially used in laboratory research.
I enjoyed the book, but was disappointed to discover that the gerbils were being bred for research purposes (I hadn’t realized that initially), rather than as pets. Other than that, I did enjoy the story, the information about the gerbils, etc. There was also a little bit of humour here and there in the book. ( )