Zoo Quest for a Dragon
By (author) David Attenborough
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9780906554258
5.43 x 8.5 inches
Price: $16.50
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9780906554241
5 x 8.03 inches
Price: $37.50
In Zoo Quest for a Dragon, a young David Attenborough embarks upon an exciting 3,000-mile voyage to Indonesia.
This is the full account of David Attenborough’s Zoo Quest expedition to the islands of Indonesia. “Our plan,” he writes, “was to travel widely throughout these islands, filming not only animals but also people and their everyday life. Our ultimate objective was to reach a small islet named Komodo, for we were going there to seek one of the most remarkable creatures alive today, the largest lizard in the world, the Komodo dragon.”
Zoo Quest for a Dragon describes an exciting 3,000-mile journey in Indonesia—to the enchanting island of Bali, where the author and his companion, Charles Lagus, were fascinated by the dancing, music and temples; to Java, where they climbed the sleep slopes of an active volcano and gazed down into the heaving cauldron; and to the interior of Borneo, where they stayed in the longhouses of the Dyak peoples, and observed and captured many animals, including Benjamin, the baby bear, and Charlie, a mischievous orang-utan. Finally, in a hazardous voyage by prau under the captaincy of a gun-smuggler, they reached Komodo, and discovered and filmed a fabulous dragon.
David Attenborough writes vividly about his travels, the people he met, and the animals he saw and captured. But above all it is an entertaining story, for as in his first book, Zoo Quest to Guyana, the author reveals his irrepressible sense of the ridiculous, his rich vein of humour, and his gift as a brilliant raconteur.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map
1 Java
2 The Forest
3 Turtle Eggs and a Snake
4 Bali
5 The Animals of Bali
6 Volcanoes and Pickpockets
7 Borneo
8 Dyaks and Orang-utan
9 Voyage
10 Komodo
11 The Dragons
12 Postscript
- By (author) David Attenborough
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