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Classical in form, warm, spare and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 202
- Publisher
- Viking Press, Ulverscroft Large Print, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788432043536
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“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.”
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>).
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