by Gerald Durrell · HarperCollins Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006713609
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«The Donkey Rustlers» is Gerald Durrell's children's adventure novel, published by HarperCollins Publishers in paperback (125 pages, in English).
Two children spending the summer on a Greek island in the Ionian Sea devise a plan to prevent a friend's land from being repossessed: stealing the local donkeys. A fun and ingenious adventure, with animals and Mediterranean landscapes as a backdrop.
The work was originally published in 1968; this paperback edition, part of the Lions series, is from 1989.
Suitable for young readers aged 10 and up, especially those who enjoy stories about animals and adventures.
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.
