# The Whispering Land

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- Book: [The Whispering Land](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerald-durrell/the-whispering-land) ([The Whispering Land.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerald-durrell/the-whispering-land.md))
- Authors: [Gerald Durrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerald-durrell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-584-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.' Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America to collect more animals. Along windswept Patagonian shores and in Argentine tropical forests, he encounters a range of animals from penguins to elephant seals. But as always, he is drawn to those rare and interesting creatures which he hopes will thrive and breed in captivity . . . Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's The Whispering Land is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.