Апетитно блюдо хумор и приключения, забъркано по рецепта на британския писател, естествоизпитател и природозащитник Джералд Даръл!„Филе от камбала“ е безценна колекция разкази, които ще ви понесат първо към Корфу, където целокупното Дарълово семейство спретва на майка си незабравим рожден ден, по...
Written for my blog, Tabula Rasa.In this memoir-like book, Durrell has returned from a trip to Australia, only to find his zoo in shambles. In Catch Me A Colobus, he recounts how they set up the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, found sponsors and eventually built the zoo back into shape. The ...
“Rosy is My Relative” proves that there is a considerable difference between being a funny writer and funny novelist. Durrell is undoubtedly very funny, but he is at his best as a teller of anecdotes. Which is hardly a bad thing: if you can assemble enough funny stories, tell them in a sufficie...
Излетът и други подобни дандании/от Мария Донева, 20 септември 2013/Ставам и придърпвам компютъра в скута си. Намирам музика и я пускам тихичко, колкото да заглуши думкането на сърцето ми. Наслушах ти се, сърце, отстъпи назад и се успокой. Да поговорим за нещо друго сега.Например за онзи малък ми...
1/2010 Review:I inhabit this book. I walk through the olive groves and swim in the crystal seas of pre-war Corfu. I think I can never go to Greece because of this book. I would want the taxis to be horse-drawn, and the small boys to be ranging freely about the island.I love so much about this boo...
Si alguna vez has ido al zoo y te ha dado pena que los animales vivan en jaulas demasiado pequeñas o que tengan barrotes en vez de cristal, este libro es para ti. Durrell te explica cómo los que no somos expertos en zoología criticamos cosas de los zoos que en realidad están bien y pasamos por al...
It was a funny book -- quite a lot like Durrell's My Family and other Animals -- except this one was written when Durrell was married and possibly in his 50s. It provided an account of setting up of the Jersey Zoological Park in the UK and more specifically, how he acquired various animals and go...
This is an autobiographical account of how Gerald Durrell (an already much experienced “animal rustler”) assembled his own private collection of exotic animals which, in due course and against considerable odds, became the backbone of his zoo on the island of Jersey (now the Durrell Wildlife Park...
Gerald Durrell pertenece a esa estirpe de aventureros modernos, cuya única misión y legado ha sido el acercar su fascinación por la naturaleza y la fauna de nuestro planeta a la humanidad. Muy pocos son los que han sacrificado asi hasta el punto dedicar su vida a la divulgación y la conservación ...
Three Singles to Adventure is about Gerald Durrell's travels in search of exotic animals in South America."Adventure" is the name of a small village near Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. This early book by Gerald Durrell chronicles his 1950 expedition to what was then called British Guiana, to ...