The true story of a young family that rescued a zoo.
Sumber : Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! Alert, By Marjorie Kehe | September 26, 2008 edition
I once interviewed a little girl who lived in a run-down trailer. Her family faced every kind of economic and social deprivation you can imagine, yet she was bright and cheerful with a cherished plan for her adult years.
“I’m going to have a job that has to do with rescuing animals,” she confided in me.
How many of us there must be – we who dream of saving the animals! That means that, potentially, there’s a huge audience for Benjamin Mee’s real-life animal-rescue story We Bought a Zoo.
Of course, in Mee’s case it may seem that he was living a dream before the zoo ever came to his attention. He and his wife and two small children had just settled into an idyllic existence in the south of France where Mee was working as a freelance writer.
But when he and his mother and brother hear of a dilapidated zoo for sale in the English countryside, they can’t resist buying it (12-bedroom run-down mansion included) and fighting to turn it around, thus saving its 200 wild animal occupants from euthanasia. Baca entri selengkapnya »
