by Gerald Durrell · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432043536
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In 'A Zoo in My Luggage', Gerald Durrell recounts his six-month expedition to Cameroon, West Africa, with the aim of collecting a diverse collection of animals for his personal zoo. The author shares his experiences and challenges in capturing and transporting various creatures, offering a fascinating look at African wildlife and his passion for conservation.
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.
