Books like Three Singles To Adventure

Three Singles to Adventure is about Gerald Durrell's travels in search of exotic animals in South America."Adventure" is the name of a small village near Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. This early book by Gerald Durrell chronicles his 1950 expedition to what was then called British Guiana, to bring back a living collection of birds, mammals, reptiles and fish indigenous to that part of South America. His first sighting from the ferryboat is of a vividly coloured lizard - an iguana - in its natural habitat. Durrell immediately contrasts this with the "dull lethargic greyish creatures in zoos" and the book continues in this vein, with breathtaking descriptions of the natural flora and fauna. The wild at that time was clearly very different from now with its unspoilt diversity. Durrell has a way of describing in full technicolour; yet turn a few pages and his sense of the ridiculous is in full sway, with yet another hilarious anecdote about how a certain animal got the better of him, or how he found himself in a very dodgy situation. (view spoiler)[The horses for instance unexpectedly seemed to have a will of their own and were often uncontrollable. (hide spoiler)]