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My Wild Life
My Wild Life
Author: Jimmy Chipperfield
ISBN-13: 9780333180440
ISBN-10: 0333180445
Publication Date: 9/11/1975
Pages: 210
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Publisher: Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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If you are curios about circuses this is the book to read. Mr. Chipperfield was born in 1912 into a circus family.

"From modest beginnings in his father's troupe, Jimmy and his brother Dicky built the greatest circus in Europe. He went to Africa for lions and to Ceylon for elephants. He went to the continent to acquire new acts. He even found time to fly in the RAF during World War II.

Jimmy Chipperfield's story is that of a self-made man. He extols the virtues of work, of a joie de virve and of the earth and its inhabitants, animal and human. He has lived a life of remarkable variety and excitement, having traveled around the world, lived in poverty and in riches. He is a humble, yet proud man, whose stories of people and of animals make fascinating reading."