The Overloaded Ark - Softcover

Durrell, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571053718 ISBN 13: 9780571053711

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1987

Synopsis

Relates the author's experiences and adventures during a 6-month expedition in West Africa to collect specimens for his zoo

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist, animal-collector and conservationist. Born in India in 1925, and having lived in Jamshedpur, Corfu and Crystal Palace, he eventually founded Jersey Zoo in 1959. He was a lifelong lover of animals, and after taking numerous trips to collect exotic wildlife for the zoo, he founded the Jersey Wildlife Conversation Trust in 1963. He also wrote numerous well-loved books about his glamorous and not-so glamorous experiences, his most famous works being My Family and other Animals and The Overloaded Ark.

From AudioFile:

This account of Gerald Durrell's 1953 trip to the Cameroons to collect live reptiles, birds and mammals for British zoos is filled with hair-raising and hysterical adventures. It was the first professional collecting trip to the region and was also Durrell's first visit to Africa. Nigel Davenport captures all of Durrell's enthusiasm and naïveté--as well as the pain of being stung by wasps and the fear that results from almost falling on top of a very large monitor lizard. Davenport also renders pidgin (the lingua franca of European-African communication) both credible and comprehensible. The reading is so persuasive that the listener becomes a member of the expedition. Leopards, anyone? R.E.K. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0571053718
• ISBN 13: 9780571053711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238