by Gerald Durrell · Planeta, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432044731
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«El cumpleaños del arca» is Gerald Durrell's autobiographical account, published by Planeta in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Gerald Durrell turned his childhood ambition of owning a zoo into an institution dedicated to wildlife conservation. The account follows his expeditions and efforts to gather rare and exotic species, always with the goal of protecting them from extinction, in an adventure filled with humour and a defence of animals.
The work was originally published in English as 'The ark's anniversary'. The Spanish translation is by María del Mar Moya. This edition belongs to Planeta's Documento collection (number 286).
For Gerald Durrell fans and for those who enjoy real-life adventures devoted to nature and animal 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.
