The Overloaded Ark Author:Gerald M. Durrell The rain forests of the British Cameroons contain such exotic forms of African wildlife as the putty-nose guenon, the superb sunbird, the flap-necked chamelion, the pigmy kingfisher and the giant water shrew. To collect living specimens of such creatures for English zoos, Gerald M. Durrell, in his twenties, and John Yelland, thirty-five, sailed ... more »for their first glimpse of Equatorial Africa. The Overloaded Ark is the story of their six months of adventures in the jungle. Gerald Durrell, former director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his books about collecting wild animals. This text describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence. Has illustrations by Sabine Baur« less