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  <title><![CDATA[A View from the Zoo]]></title>
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  <default_description>The view from Gary Richmond's zoo includes lions and llamas, eagles and antelope, cheetahs and chimps - plus those most interesting of God's creatures, human beings. The stories that make up this book are parables of human life as well a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of life among the animals at a major zoo. They are funny and sad, harrowing and heartwarming - and always memorable. So join this zookeeper turned storyteller as he recalls the encounters that taught him so much about animals, people, the earth we share, and God who made us.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're allergic to books that have an obvious lesson to teach, this isn't the book for you. Gary Richmond doesn't hide at all the fact that he's drawing correlations between his experiences and the Christian life. I didn't mind, so I enjoyed this book. The stories were fun (and hair-raising at ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61064331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gary Richmond does a great job in this book of relating his zookeeper experience with the animals he cared for and how it taught him so much about animals, people, the earth that we share and the God who made us.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book growing up, and am glad I finally remembered what it was called!  This is a fun memoir of a zookeeper's experiences with animals both in and out of the zoo.]]></body>
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