by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420618593
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«Encuentros con animales» is Gerald Durrell's naturalist non-fiction book, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Gerald Durrell recounts encounters with animals in various settings, from the Argentine pampas to the west coast of Africa and British Guiana. With a popular-science approach, he combines field anecdotes and observation of animal behaviour, showing the diversity of wildlife and the need to conserve it.
Originally published in 1958. It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection (no. 859, Literature Section), translated from English by Fernando Santos Fontenla.
For readers interested in nature, travel and anecdotes about animals, and in the work of naturalist 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.
