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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. Gerald Durrell was one of Britain’s best-loved naturalists, whose books, including __My Family and Other Animals__, continue to entertain and amuse generations of children and adults alike. Fifteen of his classic titles have now been republished by Bello.‘His sympathy with the anim

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Gerald Malcolm Durrell
Publisher
Campbell Books Ltd
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781447214144
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Biography, General & Miscellaneous Biography
Rating
4.17 / 5 (1,334 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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