The Bafut Beagles

By: Gerald M. Durrell

Another animal-collecting romp with the light-hearted young English zoologist whose The Overloaded Ark was one of last year's pleasantest entertainments. As before, the scene is the Cameroons, in West Central Africa, but this time Mr. Durrell takes us beyond the coastal rain forests to a high, back-country Eden that numbers among its blessings a salubrious climate, a profusion of rare and engaging fauna, and, most happily of all, a native ruler - gentle, fun-loving and alcoholic - called the Fon of Bafut. In the words of that excellent man, we "no forget dis happy time we done get."

Gerald Durrell - at one time the youngest zoological collector in England - was born in India and has made several major expeditions to West Africa and British Guiana. He is the brother of Lawrence Durrell (author of the greatly acclaimed Alexandria Quartet) and has written some of the best books ever published about animals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001KXXERC
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 3.9" x 6.9"