by Gerald Durrell · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420431215
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«Los secuestradores de burros» is the young-adult novel by Gerald Durrell, published by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback (177 pages, in Spanish).
David and Amanda spend their summer in a small village on a Greek island, where they meet Yani, an orphan about to lose his home and land. To help him, the three young people will have to use their wits and face an unjust situation.
Work originally published as «The Donkey Rustlers» (1968). Alfaguara Juvenil collection, number 46. Translation by María Luisa Balseiro and illustrations by Mabel Álvarez.
For young readers who enjoy stories of summer, friendship, and adventure with teenage protagonists.
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.
