Encounters With Animals - Softcover

Gerald Durrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435120840 ISBN 13: 9780435120849

Publisher: Heinemann, 1965

Synopsis

Based on the broadcasts made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC, this is a vividly entertaining account of the animals he discovered and observed in places like Argentina, Africa and Guiana. A cornucopia of creatures are dancing birds of paradise, mosaic-like lizards, snakes of all sizes, and many more. Their characters, conflicts and peculiar courtship rituals are wonderfully revealed here...

About this title

About the Author

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, including My 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 Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

From AudioFile

Gerald Durrell recounts tales worthy of a barrel of monkeys (and birds, reptiles and insects), and families will have more fun listening than you'd ever expect. Drawing from a series for the BBC on observing and gathering animals around the world, naturalist and zoo preservationist Durrell fully involves his audience. Nigel Davenport, veteran narrator of many of Durrell's fictional stories, fluidly becomes your guide and teacher. Captivating details of the animals' coloring, habitat and antics are fluidly presented. Small children will simply be delighted by the creatures--dragonfly, sea otter, earwigs and alligators. Davenport and Durrell draw in older listeners with entertaining professionalism. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435120840
• ISBN 13: 9780435120849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192