Three Tickets to Adventure Author:Gerald Durell "Adventure" was the name of a tiny village near the mouth of the Essequibo River in British Guiana. In this book, the author of 'The Overloaded Ark' and 'The Bafut Beagles' starts off on another of his wonderful and exciting quests for live specimens of animals for the zoos of the world. — Here you will meet such entertaining company as Cuthbert,... more » the affectionate Currasow, and the gian anteater named Amos, who loved boxing.
"Gerald Durrell, the younger brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell, is a young English naturalist who has collected animals all over the world. Born in India in 2935, he and his family lived on the island of Coruf in Greece until1939."« less