The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell

The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell

Love is a powerful force, but it doesn't compare to guilt.

And just like most people, my guilt eats me alive.

I went from being an irresponsible kid who didn't know any better to an irresponsible man who does.

I make no apologies.

Don't take my carelessness for strength.

My blood is as deadly as the bullet that killed my brother, and once I'm cut, there's no stopping the river of rage.

My past is dead. I'm not like my MC brothers. Nothing is going to come bite me in the ass.

Or so I thought.

Because life gave me Mary, the little hellraiser who tries to be reckless.

She's only looking to escape the nightmare of what happened to her in Atlantic City.

She's a good girl. The kind to wear pearls and fancy cardigans. She doesn't belong in this life.

Even if I know she belongs with me.

She paints her lips in red lipstick, but I know it's an effort to hide the pain.

There's more than the fact we are too different to be together.

Her past isn't dead.

And mine has come back to life.

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme, Two in the Bush, which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

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ISBN 13	9780140012668
ISBN 10	0140012664
Title	The Bafut Beagles
Author	Gerald Durrell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1970-03-01
Number of pages	208
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