by Gerald Durrell · Barcelona : Alianza : Club Internacional del Libro, 1984 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692265
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«Atrápame ese mono» is the short-story collection by naturalist Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (210 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together the naturalist's experiences over seven years running his Jersey zoo: expeditions in search of species such as the leopards and colobus monkeys of Sierra Leone or the volcano rabbit of Mexico, along with episodes like the birth of a lioness and the captive breeding of white-necked pheasants. The volume closes with a reflection on biological balance and the protection of threatened species.
Edition from the Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo collection, number 26, co-published by Alianza Editorial and Club Internacional del Libro. Original title: Catch Me a Colobus.
For those who enjoy naturalist adventures and Gerald Durrell's humor, especially readers of his Corfu trilogy and animal-life enthusiasts.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
