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Encounters with Animals

Autor Gerald Durrell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2012
'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'

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

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