Here for your delectation is theSPECTACULAR & RARE---------------THE BAFUT BEAGLES by Gerald M. Durrell, Illustrated by Ralph Thompson.If they gave out book awards for Best Portrayal of an Actual Person Known by the Author, Gerald Durrell's second book of animal-collecting adventures would definitely be on the short list. In 1949 he returned to the British Cameroons, site of his first expedition (as chronicled in THE OVERLOADED ARK), and there the District Officer, learning that he planned to leave his partner at their base camp in the forestland and try his luck up-country, advised him to go to Bafut. This grassland kingdom was ruled by a native potentate known as the Fon, whom the D.O. said Durrell must be sure to get on his side if he hoped to succeed. The best way to do that was to prove he could hold his liquor! Durrell's experiences in Bafut are told with his typical delightful style and trademark wry humor, particularly when he teaches the Fon, his wives and children, and his chiefs and councillors how to dance the line portion of the conga. (The book's title comes from his name for the pack of "six thin, ungainly mongrels" and four hunters whom he employed, and the hunters became very proud of it; he describes one of them, in an argument with a local, indignantly exclaiming, "You no go shout me like dat, ma friend! You no savvay dat I be Bafut Beagle?") As always, his love of "all creatures great and small" shows through even during such misadventures as when he is bitten by what he supposed was a harmless blind snake, but, as he tells his cook, "'e get eye," a thing no member of the supposed species ever possessed. But the best scenes are those in which the Fon appears. Roguish, irrepressible, and an indiscriminate lover of drink in every kind and combination, he still proves to be the best ally an animal collector could hope for--and a lover of the outdoors as well, as when, clad only in a loincloth and armed with a spear, he takes Durrell to see the evening emergence of a colony of galagos, tiny arboreal creatures locally known as shillings. All Durrell's books are great fun, but this is one of the best. PLUS----there are L-O-A-D-S of illustrations!!This is thesoftcover statedBal-Hi First Edition from October 1966.Both the cover and the book are inexcellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. 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