by Gerald Durrell · Labor · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433584663
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«Un zoo en la isla» is Gerald Durrell's autobiographical account of how he founded his zoo in Jersey, published by Labor in hardback (183 pages, in Spanish).
British naturalist Gerald Durrell tells how he achieved his childhood dream: founding his own zoo on the island of Jersey. With the support of his wife and a devoted team, the zoo grows; readers discover a varied parade of unusual animals and the anecdotes surrounding them.
This Spanish edition of «Menagerie Manor» (1964) features a translation by Montserrat Rubió i Lois and illustrations by Ralph Thompson. It is the third instalment of Durrell's zoological memoirs.
It is aimed at young people from 12 years old and readers interested in nature and naturalists' 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.
