by Gerald Durrell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434586123
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«La excursión» is the story collection by Gerald Durrell that Salvat published in 1987 in paperback (154 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together three humorous stories in which the Durrell family gets caught up in all kinds of mishaps: a countryside outing on the Dorset coast that ends in disaster and an expedition on the Greek ship Poseidón that proves even more chaotic. Humour and adventure dominate these pages.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Juvenil collection (no. 32); translated by Juan Antonio Santos from the original The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium.
Aimed at young readers and at those who enjoy Gerald Durrell's memoirs.
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.
