Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
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Animals in my life

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Durrell's animals are like people. They have faces, not muzzles; they have character, not instinct; they have a soul hidden beneath their skin and fur. Reading Durrell's books is not only instructive but also fun, like traveling with Jerome Klapkey Jerome's characters along the Thames from Kingston to Oxford or drinking wine aboard the Arabella with the noble Captain Blood's pirates. But you still have to keep your ears open. Fangs aren't teeth, and claws aren't fingers.

This edition of the selected works of the famous English zoologist and traveler, one of the cult figures of the 20th century, includes four of his popular stories - "The Animals in My Life," "The Path of the Baby Kangaroo," "Catch Me a Colobus," and "The Estate-Menagerie" - in which the colors of earthly nature and the riot of life, unconstrained by industrial frameworks, instill in us hope that planet Earth, in its long wandering around the Sun, will not stray from the right course and turn into a dehydrated desert, where there are no colobus monkeys, no baby kangaroos, no forests, no air - nothing but the wind playing with the shadows.
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