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''I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .''

Gerald Durrell''s accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world''s most extraordinary animals.

Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others.



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Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities * Sunday Telegraph *
A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time -- Sir David Attenborough

Encounters with Animals

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 September 2012
      ISBN-13 9780241955833
      978-0241955833
      ISBN-10 0241955831
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      Wildlife: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .''

      Gerald Durrell''s accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world''s most extraordinary animals.

      Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others.



      Trade Review

      Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities * Sunday Telegraph *
      A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time -- Sir David Attenborough

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