- Voyages around the world, Juvenile fiction, Animals, Fiction
Great-Uncle Lancelot, redoubtable explorer and enthusiastic naturalist, takes his niece and twin nephews on an extraordinary journey around the world, introducing them to a wide variety of animals.
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Warm, classical in form, resolved and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- First published
- September 3, 1991
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- House of Stratus, Conran Octopus, Stoddart
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781850292906
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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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