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A hardcover edition with ochre boards, silver lettering and clipped, illustrated dust jacket. There is foxing and toning throughout but the text and black-and-white drawings are clear and legible. There is a blue ink inscription to the inside front page and the second page. There is a previous sellers’ paper label on the inside front cover. There are some losses and wear and staining to the top and bottom edges and spine of the dust jacket.
Now in a clear, removable cover to protect from further damage.
it is a first edition – but essentially it is a good reading copy. The condition has been taken into account when pricing the book.
Publisher: Hart-Davis,
Publication Date: 1961
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Durrell’s account of his animal-collecting expedition to the Argentine during the late 1950s, travelling from Buenos Aires to Patagonia and up to Jujuy. It is another of his collaborations with his finest illustrator Ralph Thompson; the two were brought together in 1954 by Rupert Hart-Davis, who had lured Durrell away from Faber after the success of his first book ‘The Overloaded Ark’ three years before. The partnership was an extraordinarily fruitful one, lasting a full decade and resulting in Durrell’s most attractive books, including, of course, ‘My Family and other Animals’.
‘When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.’
Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there’s one thing that’s better than a small zoo – a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America to collect more animals.
Along windswept Patagonian shores and in Argentine tropical forests, he encounters a range of animals from penguins to elephant seals. But as always, he is drawn to those rare and interesting creatures which he hopes will thrive and breed in captivity . . .
Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell’s The Whispering Land is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.
| Weight | 0.550 kg |
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