THE DRUNKEN FOREST (1314)

Durrell, Gerald

ISBN 10: 0140013148 / ISBN 13: 9780140013146

Published by Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex., 1964

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203pp. Clean copy. No inscriptions. (Sml. ding to base of spine.) Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket.

Seller Inventory # 57505/713

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DRUNKEN FOREST (1314)
• Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex.
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140013148
• ISBN 13: 9780140013146
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Ralph Thompson
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Animals, Pets & Natural History

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Synopsis

Gerald Durrell is among the best-selling authors in English. His adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote stand out in his accounts of expeditions in Africa and South America in search of rare animals. He divines the characters of these creatures with the same clear, humorous and unsentimental eyes with which he regards those chance human acquaintances whose conversation in remote places he often reproduces in all its devastating and garbled originality. To have maintained, for over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of entertainment can only be described as a triumph. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but also to endear itself to you. 'His sympathy with the animal world encourages the Disney in every creature to show itself' "Time And Tide"