by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420632728
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«Rescate en Madagascar» is Gerald Durrell's nature and travel narrative, published by Alianza in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
In this narrative, naturalist Gerald Durrell travels to Madagascar on one of his last expeditions to find the aye-aye, a small primate surrounded by local superstitions. The island, with its unique fauna and flora, is the setting for anecdotes about unusual animals and the inhabitants he meets in his efforts to protect threatened species.
Originally published as «The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar» in 1992; this Spanish edition is from 1994.
Suitable for readers interested in nature, travel, and explorers' memoirs, and for fans 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.
