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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Crown Pub
Publication date
May 26, 2009
Pages
289
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307337450
ISBN-10
0307337456
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$23.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âWhat kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?â
Thatâs the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the worldâs most famous gerbil czar.
Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed for curiosityâs sake in the familyâs garage, Donald Robinsonâs obsession with the âpocket kangarooâ 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, peacocksâand nearly nine thousand gerbils.
From part-time model for her fatherâs bestselling pet book, How to Raise and Train Pet Gerbils, to full-time employee in the gerbil empireâs complex of prefab Sears buildings, Holly was an enthusiastic if often exasperated companion on her fatherâs quest to breed the perfect gerbil. Told with heart, humor, and affection, The Gerbil Farmerâs Daughter is Hollyâs ode to a weird and wonderful upbringing and her truly one-of-a-kind father.
Thatâs the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the worldâs most famous gerbil czar.
Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed for curiosityâs sake in the familyâs garage, Donald Robinsonâs obsession with the âpocket kangarooâ 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, peacocksâand nearly nine thousand gerbils.
From part-time model for her fatherâs bestselling pet book, How to Raise and Train Pet Gerbils, to full-time employee in the gerbil empireâs complex of prefab Sears buildings, Holly was an enthusiastic if often exasperated companion on her fatherâs quest to breed the perfect gerbil. Told with heart, humor, and affection, The Gerbil Farmerâs Daughter is Hollyâs ode to a weird and wonderful upbringing and her truly one-of-a-kind father.
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from Crown Pub (May 26, 2009)
9780307337450 | details & prices | 289 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $23.00
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