Following on through the events in A Zoo in my own Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for his or her newly founded zoo. With rare insight and exclusive appeal, Durrell pulls the listener in to the tropical scenery of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical occasions with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of people, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.