8 December 1960: A trip to the Amazon,not the local pet shop, for one exotic bird ownerProbably the river Amazon is the final remaining region of the soil where the traveller can really feel that the twentieth century may be only an unpleasant dream.
It was not, and however,for this reason that Mrs Rachel Goodman bought a ticket on the Liverpool cargo-liner Hubert, which set off nearly four months ago on a leisurely 15000-mile trip to the Caribbean and the Amazon. She was in search of tropical birds to add to her collection of 300, or which has spread from semi-detached house to garden aviary in Cranleigh Drive,Brooklands, near Manchester.
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Source: theguardian.com