My Wild Life: The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer

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The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and setting up a wildlife sanctuary.Simon Cowell always wanted to be a vet. Instead, he ended up as a wealthy commodities trader. But with a love of nature and animals, he could never quite subscribe to the greed is good mantra which rung out through the trading halls of the City of London.While his colleagues quaffed champagne and blew their bonuses on designer gear, Simon set up a wildlife sanctuary in the grounds of his stockbroker belthome. At 42, having suffered two nervous breakdowns, he finally left his job. Thats when his life began.

Wild Life is the story of his remarkable journey from reluctant City swinger to environmental crusader, meeting some of the some of the cute and cuddly creatures that have touched his heart along the way.Often hilarious, sometimes harrowing and always insightful, Simons story is one mans life-long mission to redress the damage man has done to the environment with boozing, a divorce and some bad behaviour along the way.

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Simon Cowell is not one of those dry-as-dust, ever-so-dreary, eco-zealots. He is a man of passion. * Sir Ranulph Fiennes *
The eccentric, irrepressible Simon Cowell and his team of volunteers at Wildlife Aid . . . You dont have to be mad to work there but it helps. * Stephen Fry *

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Simon Cowell always wanted to be a vet. Instead, he ended up as a wealthy commodities trader. But with a love of nature and animals, he could never quite subscribe to the greed is good mantra which rung out through the trading halls of the City of London.While his colleagues quaffed champagne and blew their bonuses on designer gear, Simon set up a wildlife sanctuary in the grounds of his stockbroker belthome. At 42, having suffered two nervous breakdowns, he finally left his job. Thats when his life began, which he maintains today: running a wildlife sanctuary.