Autobiography of a Naturalist and Environmentalist

This book is an autobiography based on Keiths memoirs whichhe wrote shortly before he died in 2006 not for publication but for hisdescendents who might be interested in how he spent his life. He didntthink there would be wide interest but this was far from true and in facthe wrote a most interesting story of his life especially in Africa where helived with his family for several yearsKeith was born in 1929 in rural Canada on the prairies of Alberta.He was always passionate about animals and wanted nothing else than alife involving animals and this was something that he achieved. He wentto school in Bristol and was educated at Southampton University andCambridge where he taught for several years. He had a wide knowledgeof the animal world and was very knowledgeable about every animal thathe met. He acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of the animal world andhe wanted nothing more than to learn all he could about animals and tothis end as a youngster he established a so called zoo in the garden. Ourmother was not too happy when he introduced ants to what he called AntIsland which was an upturned dust bin lid