Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence.
'A delightful book . . . You can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back . . . Bagging a monitor, smoking out a Pangolin (scaly anteater), celebrating the capture of the rare Angwantibo (small lemur), bird liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of Lake Soden: he communicates every detail of his experiences with just the right degree of zest.' New Statesman
- ISBN10 0571209335
- ISBN13 9780571209330
- Publish Date 9 April 2001 (first published October 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition FF Classics
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English