A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife and a desire to save endangered species from extinction Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chuml