Encounters with Animals
Autor Gerald Durrellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2012
Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals.
Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241955833
ISBN-10: 0241955831
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241955831
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Gerald
Durrell
was
born
in
Jamshedpur,
India,
in
1925.
He
returned
to
England
in
1928
before
settling
on
the
island
of
Corfu
with
his
family.
In
1945
he
joined
the
staff
of
Whipsnade
Park
as
a
student
keeper,
and
in
1947
he
led
his
first
animal-collecting
expedition
to
the
Cameroons.
He
later
undertook
numerous
further
expeditions,
visiting
Paraguay,
Argentina,
Sierra
Leone,
Mexico,
Mauritius,
Assam
and
Madagascar.
His
first
television
programme,Two
in
the
Bush¸
which
documented
his
travels
to
New
Zealand,
Australia
and
Malaya
was
made
in
1962;
he
went
on
to
make
seventy
programmes
about
his
trips
around
the
world.
In
1959
he
founded
the
Jersey
Zoological
Park,
and
in
1964
he
founded
the
Jersey
Wildlife
Preservation
Trust.
He
was
awarded
the
OBE
in
1982.
Encouraged
to
write
about
his
life's
work
by
his
brother,
Durrell
published
his
first
book,The
Overloaded
Ark,
in
1953.
It
soon
became
a
bestseller
and
he
went
on
to
write
thirty-six
other
titles,
includingMy
Family
and
Other
Animals,The
Bafut
Beagles,Encounters
with
Animals,The
Drunken
Forest,A
Zoo
in
My
Luggage,The
Whispering
Land,Menagerie
Manor,The
Amateur
NaturalistandThe
Aye-Aye
and
I.
Gerald
Durrell
died
in
1995.
Recenzii
Durrell
has
an
uncanny
knack
of
discovering
human
as
well
as
animal
eccentricities
A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time
A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time