1961-1981 The Whispering Land; Catch Me a Colobus; My Family and Other Animals

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Comprising the first editions of 'The Whispering Land' and 'Catch Me a Colobus', and an anthology of seven of Durrell's works, including 'My Family and Other Animals'. 

All complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.

Gerald Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist and television presenter who, as well as his expeditions and work with animals, is perhaps best-known for his autobiographical book 'My Family and Other Animals', which describes his time living in Corfu as a child with his widowed mother and siblings from 1935-1939. 

This set includes a 1981 anthology of Durrell's works, including 'My Family', together with six other books recounting his expeditions such as 'The Bafut Beagles', 'The Drunken Forest' and 'Encounters with Animals'. 

'The Whispering Land' (1961) and 'Catch Me a Colobus' (1972) make up the other two volumes in this set, being an account of 8 months travelling in Argentina during the late 1950s, and describing an expedition to Sierra Leone to catch colobus monkeys for Durrell's zoo in Jersey, respectively.