by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420699691
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«Murciélagos dorados y palomas rosas» is Gerald Durrell's naturalist chronicle, published by Alianza in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
In this chronicle, Gerald Durrell recounts his expedition to Mauritius to locate endangered species, such as the golden bat and the pink pigeon. With anecdotes and observations, he describes the local fauna and the efforts to conserve it.
Published in the El Libro de Bolsillo collection (no. 969), with a translation by Aurelio Martínez Benito. Original title: «Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons».
Recommended for nature lovers, naturalist non-fiction and travel writing, and for readers of Gerald Durrell.
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.
