1st edition, 1st printing. 236pp. Tan cloth covered boards (clean and sharp, lightly rounded at base of spine). Internally neat, clean, tight and bright. Frontispiece and numerous other illustrations in text, all by Ralph Thompson. In its original dust jacket (a little rubbed at edges, short & flat crease across lower spine corner). Dust jacket now protected in archival quality mylar wrapper which prolongs the life of the paper, keeps it clean and protects it from damage. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket. Only Gerald Durrell could wake up beneath a Land Rover in a cold Patagonian dawn to see a family of foxes performing a Chinese ballet with a roll of toilet paper, and no one could describe their grace and absurdity so vividly. He had gone to that windswept and beautiful land to film penguins who had camped themselves on an arena by the shore where the sand was dotted with the relics of an extinct race of people. A wealth of creatures and GD’s customary hilarious telling of their antics (and his own). 8vo
