- Zoology, Collection and preservation, Zoological specimens, Wild animal collecting
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis, House of Stratus, R. Hart-Davis
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780755111794
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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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