Building a zoo by hand was the easy part. David Gill transformed a large piece of Cumbrian wasteland into a unique feature of the Lake District - a place where people could see tigers, bears, and rhinos up close and hand feed giraffes, penguins, and lemurs in natural habitats. Since 1994, David Gill has survived being stabbed in the neck, countless attacks by animals, and avoided death while traveling in some of the most inhospitable places on earth. He might have drowned in Peru and Australia, where he also became an enemy of the state before fleeing for his life. He risked his own life attempting to save a drowning kangaroo and again when he walked into a raging inferno to save his own lemurs. Tragedy struck when he had to shoot his own rhino in a mercy killing. The hardest thing to cope with has been years spent away from his own children while fighting the family courts. He had a gorgeous home, a zoo, and a Bentley in the garage. Yet he had nothing. How had this happened and could he ever regain his children who are the love of his life? Nine Lives is a roller coaster ride that you might expect to find in the fiction section of a bookstore, yet every event here actually happened for real. These events would have killed lesser men but David Gill is a survivor and he is still surviving to tell the tale - a tale you must read to believe.
David S. Gill Bücher
