by Gerald Durrell · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434586062
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«El pájaro burlón» is Gerald Durrell's adventure novel, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (212 pages, in Spanish).
On the remote island of Zenkali, situated where the waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet, life passes in isolation from the outside world until, for a couple of months, the island becomes the focus of global media attention. The plot is a youthful adventure set on an exotic island backdrop, featuring the bird that gives the book its title.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca Juvenil collection, number 26; the translation is by Juan Basabe and the original title is 'The Mockery Bird'.
Aimed at young readers and lovers of adventure fiction with an island setting.
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.
