Encounters with Animals

Encounters with Animals
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Publisher : Viking Childrens Books
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 0140018905
ISBN-13 : 9780140018905
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Book Synopsis Encounters with Animals by : Gerald Durrell

Download or read book Encounters with Animals written by Gerald Durrell and published by Viking Childrens Books. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others.


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