There is a Meerkat called Archie at the McLean Museum in Greenock, Inverclyde, and this is his story. How Archie got from the Kalahari Desert in South Africa to the banks of the Clyde River in Scotland is an epic tale. It is a tale best told in his own inimitable fashion. From a morning in 1898, when Archie finds himself abandoned in the desert, until he retires from Show business to the more sedate job of tour guide and raconteur at the Museum, he swashbuckles his way across the pages of his biography.