`Three singles to Adventure, please,' I said, trying to look as nonchalant as possible. `Yes, sir,' said the clerk. `First or second class?'
In 1950, Gerald Durrell travelled to British Guiana (now called Guyana) to bring back fauna native to that corner of South America.
He takes a riverboat up the Essequibo through lush tropical forests and treks across a landscape teeming with life and a riot of colours: from the crimson-breasted military starlings to the copper-toned howler monkeys. He gets into a sticky situation with an angry two-toed sloth and learns how (or how not) to lasso a galloping anteater. There is one thing to be said for collecting animals: it can never be described as dull.
- ISBN10 0435120646
- ISBN13 9780435120641
- Publish Date 5 November 1962
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English