Catch Me a Colobus

by Gerald Durrell

Book Overview

A pot-pourri of animal anecdotes, based on hectic days at the author's Jersey zoo and his forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction. First published in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006132642
• ISBN13: 9780006132646
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Fontana
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Catch Me a Colobus

All books by Gerald Durrell are great and this is one of them. Wise, funny, informative, and kind, his books always make my life brighter.

Gerald at his best!

So, what do you think when you hear about a Duchess who collects money for charity? That she is old, tweedy, smells of spaniels. That is what Gerald thought until he met the melting eyed beauty to whom he eagerly gives all his money, and discovers that she was the tweedy duchess.Hmm.. The encounters in the zoo are hilarious, apes get loose, tigers get pregnant and women fall by the droves for a handsome zoo employee. It is endearing, funny and occasionally outrageous and Gerald's language is so evocative, you imagine the scene, however implausible and cannot stop laughing for it.