Best of
Natural-History

1954

The Bafut Beagles


Gerald Durrell - 1954
    Meet a frog with a coat of hair (which turns out not to be hair at all), full grown monkeys that fit inside a teacup, mice with wings, and many more of the species endemic to the Cameroons, not to mention the local ruler, the Fon of Bafut.

Three Singles to Adventure


Gerald Durrell - 1954
    three singles to adventure takes the reader to south America, where he meets the sakiwinki and the sloth clad in bright green fur, where he can hear the horrifying sound of piranha fish on the rampage, or learn how to lasso a galloping anteater.

Last of the Curlews


Fred Bodsworth - 1954
    The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species.

The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades


Harald Stümpke - 1954
    

The Spider


John Crompton - 1954
    

Ways of the Ant


John Crompton - 1954