by Gerald Durrell · Salvat Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434585874
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«El nuevo Noé» is Gerald Durrell's memoir as an animal collector, published by Salvat Alfaguara in paperback (205 pages, in Spanish).
Gerald Durrell recounts his work collecting animals for zoos: the expeditions, the capture of exotic species and the problems of housing and feeding them. The narrative is divided into two parts: Cameroon and South America, and includes anecdotes about animals with curious habits, such as chimpanzees, boas and monkeys.
Translation by Juan Antonio Santos of «The New Noah» (1955), with illustrations by Enrique Porta. Part of the Biblioteca Juvenil collection from Salvat Alfaguara (no. 7).
Aimed at young readers, it will also appeal to those who enjoy observing nature and naturalists' travel stories.
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.
