by Gerald Durrell · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408021667
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«Un zoo en mi equipaje» is the autobiographical chronicle of naturalist Gerald Durrell, published by Planeta in paperback (181 pages, in Spanish).
Durrell recounts how he decided to found his own zoo: he travelled to West Africa to gather rare animals, from galagos and chimpanzees to tree frogs and green mambas, and returned to England. There he faced municipal bureaucracy and neighbours while seeking a location, and temporarily set up the collection in a tent in his garden.
Translation by Pilar Giralt of the original English work 'A zoo in my luggage', with illustrations by Ralph Thompson; belongs to the Documento collection from Planeta.
For those who enjoy travel and nature memoirs, humour and animal anecdotes, and the defence of wildlife and conservation.
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.
