Monkeys on the Interstate by Jack Hanna SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 1989 • Doubleday

Monkeys on the Interstate and Other Tales from America's Favorite Zookeeper by Jack Hanna

FIRST EDITION [1989] DOUBLEDAY

Half-title page has been doubly signed and inscribed twice by Jack Hanna. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket shows some shelf wear but is overall very attractive.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself looks and reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Zookeeper Jack Hanna has charmed audiences with baby elephants and scared the pants off David Letterman with a giant python. He's bottle-fed newborn gorillas and been kicked out of bed by a tiger cub. And now he shares his outrageous, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking adventures in a long-awaited book that combines James Herriot's warmth with Dr. Doolittle's whimsy.

From a Tennessee boyhood when he tried to turn the family barn into an elephant house, Jack Hanna's life has been filled with animals and with love. When he came to the crumbling Columbus Zoo in 1978, he moved the animals out of cages into natural habitats and created a facility acclaimed throughout the world. How he did it makes fascinating reading, but it's his hair-raising escapades with poisonous snakes, spectacular foul-ups with moat-swimming snow monkeys, or the poignant rescue of a kitten stranded on a hundred-foot dam that make this more than a collection of wild and wooly animal stories. It's a testament of one man's deep compassion for all the wild creatures of the earth.