Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Over the years, parting with animals became such a wrenching affair for Gerald that he finally decided to collect a zoo of his own. This book is his blithe-spirited account of a six-month collector's safari in Bafut, a mountain grasslands kingdom in the Cameroons in British...
Gin & Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a...
Durrell and the Fon became foiner and foiner friends. When the time came for the zoologist to leave with his animals, the Fon gave him a set of his own magnificently embroidered black-and-yellow robes and proclaimed him the Deputy Fon.
Zoo, Anyone? Back home, the Deputy Fon of Bafut got a Blimpish reception from the city fathers when he offered his adoptive town of Bournemouth a ready-made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not...
While keeping his private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe...