by Gerald Durrell · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420600215
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«El arca inmóvil» is Gerald Durrell's autobiographical account, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
With humor, Gerald Durrell recounts his years running the Jersey zoo, which he founded himself, and analyzes the situation of zoological parks. He reviews the challenges of conserving and breeding animals in captivity: from capturing threatened specimens to their adaptation to the new environment, not forgetting cage design or feeding.
«El arca inmóvil» was originally published as «The Stationary Ark» in 1966. This edition, translated by Nazaret de Terán Bleiberg, belongs to Alianza's El Libro de Bolsillo collection.
For readers interested in nature, animal conservation and naturalists' memoirs told with humor.
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.
