by Gerald Durrell · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422684367
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«Un zoo en mi equipaje» is Gerald Durrell's travel memoir, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (220 pages, in Spanish).
The naturalist Gerald Durrell recounts with humour how he sets out to gather exotic animals to found a zoo on the island of Jersey. The anecdotes of the expedition and encounters with all kinds of creatures reflect his passion for nature and his defence of species conservation.
First volume of the series The Zoo Memoirs; translation by Pilar Giralt of the original «A Zoo in My Luggage». Spanish edition published in 2000.
For those who enjoy travel memoirs, humour and stories about animals and nature 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.
