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Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals, in particular My Family and Other Animals. But 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
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The Overloaded Ark, Gerald Durrell
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- Released
- 1987
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- Title
- The Overloaded Ark
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gerald Durrell
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 238
- ISBN10
- 0571053718
- ISBN13
- 9780571053711
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Nature, Travel, Humor, Animals, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Stories, Africa, Love for Animals, Cameroon
- First published
- 1953
- Original title
- Overloaded ark
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals, in particular My Family and Other Animals. But 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