About the Book: Adventures Of A Young Naturalist: Zoo Quest Expeditions
In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime
to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoos collection
and to film the expeditions for the BBC. This is the story of those voyages.
Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana,
Komodo dragons in Indonesia and armadillos in Paraguay, he and the rest of the
team battled with cannibal fish, aggressive tree porcupines and escape-artist
wild pigs, as well as treacherous terrain and unpredictable weather, to record
the incredible beauty and biodiversity