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The Overloaded Ark

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Overloaded Ark
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gerald Durrell
SeriesFF Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 177,Width 112
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
The environment
Pets and the Natural World
Wildlife - general interest
ISBN/Barcode 9780571209330
ClassificationsDewey:590.92 591.96711
Audience
Primary & Secondary Education
Edition FF Classics

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 9 April 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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