The Whispering Land

✍ Scribed by Gerald Durrell

• Publisher: Viking
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.' Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America to collect more animals. Along windswept Patagonian shores and in Argentine tropical forests, he encounters a range of animals from penguins to elephant seals. But as always, he is drawn to those rare and interesting creatures which he hopes will thrive and breed in captivity . . . Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's The Whispering Land is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.

✦ Subjects

Memoirs;Biographies & Memoirs;Travelers & Explorers;Biographies & Memoirs;Wildlife;Animals;Biological Sciences;Science & Math;Zoology;Amphibians;Animal Behavior & Communication;Animal Psychology;Ichthyology;Invertebrates;Mammals;Ornithology;Primatology;Reptiles;Biological Sciences;Science & Math;Nature Writing & Essays;Nature & Ecology;Science & Math