Animals in My Life

In Darrell's works, animals are like people. They have faces, not snouts, they have character, not instinct, they have a soul hidden beneath their skin and fur. Reading Darrell's books is not only educational but also fun, like traveling with the heroes of Jerome Klapka Jerome along the Thames from Kingston to Oxford or drinking wine aboard the 'Arabella' with the noble Captain Blood's pirates. But one still needs to keep an ear open. Fangs are not teeth, and claws are certainly not fingers. This edition of selected works by the famous English zoologist and traveler, one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, includes four of his popular novellas — 'Animals in My Life', 'The Little Kangaroo's Path', 'Catch Me a Colobus', and 'The Estate-Zoo', — in which the colors of earthly nature and the exuberance of life, unrestrained by industrial frameworks, instill in us the hope that the planet Earth, in its long wandering around the Sun, will not stray off course and turn into a desiccated desert, where there are neither colobuses, nor little kangaroos, nor forests, nor air — nothing but wind playing with shadows.