num_pages: 235
description: Fans of Gerard Durrell's beloved classic My Family and Other Animals (the inspiration for  The Durrells in Corfu  on Masterpiece PBS) and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom will rejoice at The Whispering Land . The sequel to A Zoo in My Luggage , this is the story of how Durrell and his wife's zoo-building efforts at England's Jersey Zoo led them and a team of helpers on an eight-month safari in Argentina to look for South American specimens. Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in Argentina, from ocelots to penguins, fur seals to parrots, Durrell captures the landscape and its inhabitants with his signature charm and humor.
language: English
title: The Whispering Land
titlecomplete: The Whispering Land
genres: Adventure, Nature, Autobiography, Travel, Humor, Biography, Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction, Natural History
ratings_count: 1708
places: Jujuy, Patagonia
series: The Zoo Memoirs 
publisher: Penguin Books