The Overloaded Ark by Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals (1956). Those memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into two television series (My Family and Other Animals, 1987, and The Durrells, 2016–2019) and one television film (My Family and Other Animals, 2005). He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell. The Overloaded Ark tells of Durrell's adventures in West Africa on experdition to Cameroon collecting animals  for zoos. It is illustrated througout with black and white drawings by Sabine Baur, and is published in a very collectible Penguin format.  This copy is a first edition copy of the book's publication as a Penguin.For every sale made Billowness Books donates 50p to a literacy charity: Book Aid International; Books Abroad; or World Literacy Foundation