Books with title THE NEW NOAH

Boa-Constrictors, paradoxical frogs, hoatzins, bush babies and tucotucos - they're all part of what Gerald Durrell casually calls his 'big family'. Each animal in his menagerie exhibits such curious habits and eccentricities. There was Cholmondely the chimpanzee, for example, who was 'king' of the collection, liked a good cigarette and his tea not too hot, but had a horror of snakes! Cuthbert the curassow loved to collapse across people's feet when they weren't looking. Gerald Durrell describes not only the capture of these rare and exotic animals in Africa and South America, but also the problems of caging and feeding them. Footle, the moustached monkey, insisted on nose-diving into his milk, while the Kusimanses - nicknamed the Bandits - found Durrell's toes the most delectable thing in camp!

It is no secret that animals and children have a special fondness for one another. Realizing this, Gerald Durrell has selected some of his more colorful animal stories that have delighted adults and included them in this book especially for young people. The New Noah is about three animal collecting trips- to the Cameroons, Guiana and Paraguay. On each of these trips Durrell was looking for the small, unusual animals about which little is known. In the Cameroons he had adventures with a Nile monitor, a bush tailed porcupine, hairy frogs, tortoises and other beasts.