This collection of selected works by the famous English zoologist and explorer, a cult figure of the 20th century, includes four of his popular books — "Menagerie Manor", "Two in the Bush", "Catch Me a Colobus", and "Beasts in My Belfry" — in which the colors of nature and the exuberance of life, unconstrained by industrial boundaries, give us hope that the planet Earth, in its long journey around the Sun, will not veer off course and turn into a dehydrated desert where there are no colobuses, no kangaroos, no forests, no air — nothing but the wind playing with shadows. In Durrell’s world, animals are like people. They have faces, not muzzles; they have character, not instinct; they have a soul hidden beneath skin and fur. Reading Durrell's books is not only educational but also fun, just as it is fun to travel with the characters of Jerome K. Jerome along the Thames from Kingston to Oxford, or to drink wine aboard the "Arabella" with the noble Captain Blood's pirates. But you still need to stay sharp. Fangs are not teeth, and claws are by no means fingers.
Author: Gerald Durrell
Translator: Lev Zhdanov
Pages: 640 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 218x149x30 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Great Books
