Full name: Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: A Journey to the Flora and Fauna of a Unique Island

Author: Gerald Durrell Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Animals, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780755111909 0755111907

Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but seriously endangered species. To rescue some of these creatures from extinction, Gerald Durrell spent uncomfortable nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair'€™s skinks and Gunther'€™s geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their varied multicoloured marine life. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius. '€˜Highly entertaining'€™ Sunday Telegraph '€˜A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time'€™ Sir David Attenborough Similar books: The Overloaded Ark by Gerald Durrell Catch Me a Colobus by Gerald Durrell A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell Two in the Bush by Gerald Durrell Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell The New Noah by Gerald Durrell The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell The Stationary Ark by Gerald Durrell Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell The Cat Who Came In From The Cold by Deric Longden Cat Shaming by Pedro Andrade Hiss and Tell by Pam Johnson-Bennett Awkward Family Pet Photos by Mike Bender I Want to Kill the Dog by Richard M. Cohen