by Gerald Durrell · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140020847
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«A Zoo in My Luggage» is Gerald Durrell's travel and nature book, published by Penguin Books in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Gerald Durrell and his wife travel to Cameroon with the mission of capturing live animals to create their own zoo. With the help of the Fon of Bafut, they gather a varied collection of African fauna, which they call 'plenty beef'. On returning to England, without facilities or permits, they are forced to live with their singular guests, such as the chimpanzee Cholmondely and the bushbaby Bug-Eye, while seeking a permanent home for them.
First volume of the series The Zoo Memoirs, Gerald Durrell's zoological memoirs, in which he recounts how he set up his own zoo.
For readers of travel and nature memoirs with a sense of humour, and for Gerald Durrell fans interested in his adventures with animals.
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.
