This is a memoir piece (and apparently part of a set of four) from Gerald Durrell, brother of Alexandria’s Lawrence Durrell, and also the writer of the series My Family and Other Animals. This memoir is about the various trips he and his wife made in the 1960s looking for animals to create a zoo. They begin in Nigeria and West Africa picking up a lemur here, a bush baby there, and eventually look for larger animals as they go. The premise, according to Durrell, is […]
This is the chronicle of a six-month trip that my wife and I made to Bafut, a mountain grassland kingdom in the British Cameroons in West Africa.
A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell