Catch Me a Colobus

Gerald Durrell catching more animals for his zoo in the Channel Islands, with amusing anecdotes about the mishaps and near misses. Interesting now as early examples of a modern conservation movement. Also interesting for the time-capsule effect - in 1972, international phone calls were so expensive, cables (telegrams) were used; 70,000 whales were still being killed annually, and so on. Read September 2009 ( )

Gerald Durrell! I have certainly missed his writing. I forgot how well he writes. Funny, flowing, interesting and with a fantastic vocabulary.
I had a bit of a rough time reading about the accidents which happened in the zoo, but it was a terrific book and I finished it so fast.

Great great great!

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