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The Overloaded Ark

Gerald Durrell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:9th Apr '01

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The Overloaded Ark is Gerald Durrell's hilarious and enthralling account of a trip to Cameroon to collect animals for Jersey Zoo.

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence.

'A delightful book .

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence.

'A delightful book . . . You can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back . . . Bagging a monitor, smoking out a Pangolin (scaly anteater), celebrating the capture of the rare Angwantibo (small lemur), bird liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of Lake Soden: he communicates every detail of his experiences with just the right degree of zest.' New Statesman

ISBN: 9780571209330

Dimensions: 179mm x 110mm x 18mm

Weight: 210g

256 pages

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