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The Whispering Land

Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.

Running Time: 6 h 12 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-1-78198-232-7
Cat. no.:	NA0355
Download size:	131 MB
Executive Producer:	Genevieve Helsby
Edited by:	Sarah Butcher
Text:	© 1961 Estate of Gerald Durrell
BISAC:	TRV000000, NAT046000
BIC:	WTLC, RNKH1
Released:	February 2019

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Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas has narrated over 300 audiobooks, including titles by Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mervyn Peake, Bram Stoker and many more. He has received particular critical acclaim for his performances of Jupiter’s Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon, Flanagan’s Run by Tom McNab, and Gerald Durrell’s memoirs A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Beasts in My Belfry and The Aye-Aye and I (all available on Naxos AudioBooks). He has won over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for several Audies. He was honoured with an AudioFile Golden Voice lifetime achievement award in 2022.

Rupert has also lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy and Bob the Builder and has performed in over 30 radio productions, including The Gemini Apes, The Glittering Prizes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He spent 18 months in the West End performing in the comedy Stones in his Pockets.

He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Titles read by Rupert Degas

Titles read by Rupert Degas: The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); The Aye-Aye and I (unabridged); Beasts in My Belfry (unabridged); Beau Geste (unabridged); The Canterville Ghost (unabridged); The Complete Short Stories (unabridged); Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories (unabridged); Dreaming of Jupiter (unabridged); The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); Flanagan’s Run (abridged); Flanagan’s Run (unabridged); Gormenghast (abridged); Jupiter’s Travels (unabridged); A Long Day in a Short Life (unabridged); Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged); Napoleon – In a Nutshell (unabridged); The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (unabridged); Restoration (abridged); The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections); South (unabridged); A Tale of One January (unabridged); Titus Awakes (abridged); Titus Alone (abridged); Titus Groan (abridged); The Trial (unabridged); Walden, and Civil Disobedience (unabridged); The Whispering Land (unabridged); A Zoo in My Luggage (unabridged)

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

There’s a moment in this enchanting audiobook that displays narrator Rupert Degas’s talent to the full. It occurs when the naturalist author is at a cocktail party in Buenos Aires and has to talk to a pompous Englishman whose dismissive attitude towards Argentinians offends the young Durrell. Degas imitates this Brit’s accent in such a fine tone that it sounds like he is talking through cotton balls. Degas’s delivery in this scene and throughout this magical mystery tour of Patagonia and other remote parts of Argentina enthrals the listener. The young Durrell, who continues to collect animals for his Channel Isle zoo, is a most engaging Englishman – articulate, eccentric, and focused on his animals – be they toucans, coatimundis or peccaries. And he is great fun.

A.D.M., AudioFile

Gerald Durrell

The Whispering Land

Read by Rupert Degas

unabridged

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