by Gerald Durrell · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420447827
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«Los secuestradores de burros» is the children's and young adult novel by Gerald Durrell, published by Alfaguara in paperback (177 pages, in Spanish).
Yani is a Greek orphan about to lose his house and land when the mayor demands payment of a debt inherited from his father. Together with his friends David and Amanda, he devises an outlandish plan: kidnap all the donkeys on the island and demand a ransom to settle the debt. An adventure full of ingenuity and friendship.
Work originally published in English as «The Donkey Rustlers» (1968); translation by María Luisa Balseiro and illustrations by Mabel Álvarez.
Aimed at children and young adults, with a humorous and friendly plot set on a Greek island.
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.
