La Forêt Ivre

The Argentine pampas and the Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo, or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon, or a baby giant anteater suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but actually to endear itself to you.

Contents

Explanation

Saludos

1. Oven-birds and burrowing owls

2. Eggbert and the Terrible Twins

Interlude

3. Fields of flying flowers

4. The orange armadillos

5. Bevy of bichos

6. Fawns, frogs, and fer-de-lance

7. Terrible toads and a bushel of birds

8. The four-eyed bird and the anaconda

9. Sarah Huggersack

10. Rattlesnakes and revolution

Interlude

11. The Rhea Hunt

Adios!

Acknowledgements