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Gerbil Farmer's Daughter : A Memoir
ISBN: 9780307337467 | 0307337464
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date: 6/29/2010
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"What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?" That's the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the world's most famous gerbil czar. Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed for curiosity's sake in the family's garage, Donald Robinson's obsession with the "pocket kangaroo" 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-bouncyHighlights for Childrento the eruditeScience News. To support his burgeoning business, the family eventually settled on a remote hundred-acre farm with horses, sheep, pygmy goats, peacocksand nearly nine thousand gerbils. From part-time model for her father's bestselling pet book,How to Raise and Train Pet Gerbils, to full-time employee in the gerbil empire's complex of prefab Sears buildings, Holly was an enthusiastic if often exasperated companion on her father's quest to breed the perfect gerbil. Told with heart, humor, and affection, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter is Holly's ode to a weird and wonderful upbringing and her truly one-of-a-kind father. From the Hardcover edition.
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Mail-Order Gerbils | p. 7 |
| The Gerbil Whisperer | p. 21 |
| Even Girls like Gerbils! | p. 37 |
| A Navy Man in Kansas | p. 53 |
| Doin' Time in Leavenworth | p. 63 |
| Trading My Bikini for a Horse | p. 73 |
| Dad Buys Himself a Gerbil Farm | p. 81 |
| Who's Going to Marry Her Now? | p. 89 |
| My Sister the Time Traveler | p. 99 | ... MORE
| Welcome to the Poor Farm | p. 113 |
| Nobody's Business but Ours | p. 131 |
| Do It Yourself or Die Trying | p. 149 |
| The Man Without a Nose | p. 163 |
| My Mom Wears Jodhpurs | p. 183 |
| A Lady Always Wears Underpants | p. 199 |
| Saving the Blond Gerbil | p. 217 |
| Rebellions | p. 235 |
| What a Gerbil Farmer Does for Fun | p. 247 |
| The Gerbil Czar Retires | p. 259 |
| Epilogue: The American Gerbil Show | p. 277 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 289 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
HOLLY ROBINSON, an award-winning writer, has been a contributing editor to Ladies’ Home Journal and Parents, and her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Good Housekeeping, and More, among other publications. She lives in northern Massachusetts with her husband and their five children.
From the Hardcover edition.
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