By Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell is on his approach to South the USA on a quest to seize specimens that experience by no means ahead of been introduced again alive. And it becomes rather an experience while he encounters timid squirrel monkeys, wailing rats, a very affectionate poultry christened Cuthbert and a bad-tempered anaconda! Bringing again a dwelling choice of animals may be complex, interesting and damned exertions, yet it’s by no means boring!
Gerald Durrell used to be certainly one of Britain’s best-loved naturalists, whose books, together with My kin and different Animals, proceed to entertain and amuse generations of kids and adults alike. Fifteen of his vintage titles have now been republished via Bello.
‘Stuffed with exquisitely ridiculous situations'
—Spectator
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