Jeremy and Amy: The Extraordinary Story of One Man and His Orang-utan Book

Jeremy Keeling first met Amy an orang-utan when he was looking after the private menagerie of rock n roll music producer Gordon Mills. A friendship was forged that would become the defining relationship of both their lives. ; One day when Jeremy was driving along with one-year-old Amy sitting beside him in the passenger seat he fell asleep at the wheel and caused a horrific car crash. The first policeman on the scene crawled into the wreckage of the upturned car where he was staggered to see a hairy non-human hand cradling Jeremy s head amid the glass and twisted metal: having been saved by Jeremy Amy now refused to let him go. ; ; For Jeremy it was to be a long convalescence but he was able to repay his debt to Amy when he joined forces with Jim Cronin a tough-talking primate-lover from the Bronx who shared his vision of creating a sanctuary for abused and abandoned monkeys. ; ; Pooling their meagre resources the two men took on a derelict pig farm in Dorset and over the next twenty years transformed it into a 65-acre cage-less sanctuary for beleaguered primates rescued all over the world. Monkey World is now internationally famous and attracts some 800 000 visitors a year.Read More