Two in the Bush (27 page)

By Gerald Durrell

A Zoo in My Luggage

Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Garden of the Gods

The Overloaded Ark

The Talking Parcel

The Mockery Bird

The Donkey Rustlers

Catch me A Colobus

Beasts In My Belfry

The New Noah

The Drunken Forest

The Whispering Land

Rosy is My Relative

Two in the Bush

Three Singles to Adventure

The Ark’s Anniversary

Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

Menagerie Manor

The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

The Bafut Beagles

Marrying off Mother and Other Stories

The Aye-Aye And I

Fillets of Plaice

Ark on the Move

Encounters with Animals

The Stationary Ark

Two in the Bush

Two in the Bush
is a record of a six-month journey which took Gerald Durrell, his wife Jacquie, and two cameramen through New Zealand, Australia and Malaya. The object
was, first, to see what was being done about the conservation of wildlife in these countries, and, secondly, to make a series of television films for the BBC. They were introduced to many rare and
remarkable animals – Royal Albatrosses, Tuataras, Duck-Billed Platypuses, Flying Lizards and Long-Nosed Bandicoots, as well as to some equally unusual humans.

Anyone who has read
The Overloaded Ark
,
The Bafut Beagles
or
The Whispering Land
will have enjoyed Gerald Durrell’s enthusiastic adventuring and his delight in the
absurdity of the situations in which he finds himself. His observation of animal – and human – behaviour is always informative and often hilarious.

First published in 1970 by Collins

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