The Overloaded Ark

Name: The Overloaded Ark
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Gerald Durrell
ISBN: 9780571053711

Gerald Durrell

09/03/1987
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Overloaded Ark par Gerald Durrell

Résumé

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals, in particular My Family and Other Animals. But The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence. "A delightful book...You can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back...Bagging a monitor, smoking out a Pangolin (scaly anteater), celebrating the capture of the rare Angwantibo (small lemur), bird liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of Lake Soden: he communicates every detail of his experiences with just the right degree of zest." (New Statesman).