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Gerald Durrell is among the best-selling
authors in English. His adventurous spirit and
his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote
stand out in his accounts of expeditions to Africa
and South America in search of rare animals.
He divines the character of these creatures with
the same clear, humorous, and unsentimental
eyes with which he regards those chance human
acquaintances whose conversation in remote
places he often reproduces in all their devastating
and garbled originality. To have maintained, for
over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of
entertainment can only be described as a triumph.
In The Bafut Beagles Gerald Durrell describes
a collecting expedition to the Cameroons, where
with the assistance of a pack of African enthus-
iasts and mongrel dogs he captured almost
everything from flying mice to booming squirrels.
The unconscious humour of a supercilious toad
or a hypocritical chimpanzee is only surpassed
by the electric charm of the...
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Fülszöveg
Gerald Durrell is among the best-selling
authors in English. His adventurous spirit and
his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote
stand out in his accounts of expeditions to Africa
and South America in search of rare animals.
He divines the character of these creatures with
the same clear, humorous, and unsentimental
eyes with which he regards those chance human
acquaintances whose conversation in remote
places he often reproduces in all their devastating
and garbled originality. To have maintained, for
over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of
entertainment can only be described as a triumph.
In The Bafut Beagles Gerald Durrell describes
a collecting expedition to the Cameroons, where
with the assistance of a pack of African enthus-
iasts and mongrel dogs he captured almost
everything from flying mice to booming squirrels.
The unconscious humour of a supercilious toad
or a hypocritical chimpanzee is only surpassed
by the electric charm of the convivial Fon of
Bafut himself.
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