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The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Gerald Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but also to endear itself to you.
Gerald Durrell's adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote stand out in his accounts of expeditions in Africa and South America in search of rare animals. He divines the characters of these creatures with the same clear, humorous and unsentimental eyes with which he regards those chance human acquaintances whose conversation in remote places he often reproduces in all its devastating and garbled originality. To have maintained, for over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of entertainment can only be described as a triumph.
Gerald Durrell's adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote stand out in his accounts of expeditions in Africa and South America in search of rare animals. He divines the characters of these creatures with the same clear, humorous and unsentimental eyes with which he regards those chance human acquaintances whose conversation in remote places he often reproduces in all its devastating and garbled originality. To have maintained, for over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of entertainment can only be described as a triumph.
Used availability for Gerald Durrell's The Drunken Forest
Hardback Editions
May 1979 : UK Hardback
November 1963 : UK Hardback
December 1961 : UK Hardback
January 1956 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
April 2016 : UK Paperback

Title: The Drunken Forest
Author(s): Gerald Durrell
ISBN: 1-5098-2707-2 / 978-1-5098-2707-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bello
Availability: Amazon UK
January 2012 : UK Paperback
October 2001 : UK Paperback
January 1958 : UK Paperback
January 1976 : Paperback

Title: The Drunken Forest
Author(s): Gerald Durrell
ISBN: 8187671904 / 978-8187671909
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Availability: Amazon
Kindle Editions
December 2011 : UK Kindle edition