The Bafut Beagles

One of Gerlad Durrell's most popular and best-loved books, the Bafut Beagles was the name which Durrell bestowed the pack of African hunters and their mongrel dogs with which he hunted and captured many of the oddest and most elusive creatures in the Cameroons. His adventures in pursuit of such fauna as flying mice and booming squirrels were often as strange as the animals themselves. From thoughtfully providing hunters with magic potions to repel instant depth from the Que-Fong-Goo, to teaching the Fon, King of Bafut and his councillors to dance the Conga, Durrell endears and endures it all.