- Collection and preservation, Zoology, Zoological specimens, Travel
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Haypethrat, Readers Union with Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- arm, English, und
- ISBN
- 9780571053711
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 have read it and 10 want to.
British naturalist and author, founder of the Jersey Zoo (now called the Durrell Wildlife Park). Many of his books deal with collecting animals for zoos but he later became more concerned with conservation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell>Wikipedia</a>).
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The war for late night 201084% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, plot-driven.
The Shooting Star 201884% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, spare.
The Bafut Beagles 195083% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, plot-driven.
Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz 191082% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, earnest.
Both classical in form, cool, plot-driven.
The Green Ray 196581% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, earnest.- La maison à vapeur 188081% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, earnest.
Le juge Ti à l'oeuvre 198681% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, raw.
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy 202586% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, plot-driven, cool.- Peter and the Wolf 197577% alikeMusic · Both classical in form, cool, raw.