by Gerald Durrell · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420606576
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«La selva borracha» is the travelogue by naturalist Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Naturalist Gerald Durrell and his wife spend six months traveling through South America with the aim of collecting animals for zoos. Amid comic anecdotes and unexpected encounters, the author describes with humor the fauna, flora and people of the region, and turns the discomforts of travel into an enjoyable and surprising adventure.
Translation by Nazaret de Terán Bleiberg. Originally published in English as The Drunken Forest in 1956. Belongs to the El libro de bolsillo collection of Alianza Editorial, Literature section, no. 1657.
A book suitable for those who enjoy travel and nature writing, with a humorous and anecdotal tone.
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.
