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Gerald Durrell
Books in Order: 34 titles
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Myself and Other Animals
A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne.'Gerald Durrell was magic' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH 'A wise, genial and world-encompass...
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Fauna and Family
The inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series, The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's childhood adventures with animals -- and humans -- on a Greek island. For a passionate animal lover like young Gerald Durrell, the island in the Ionian Sea was...
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The Whispering Land
Naturalist Gerald Durrell recalls his expedition to South America to find exotic animals in this follow-up to A Zoo in My Luggage. After bringing multiple species of African animals back to the Channel Island of Jersey to populate their new zoo, ...
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The Zoo Memoirs
The British naturalist and bestselling author of the Corfu Trilogy -- the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu -- founds a zoo. In this trio of delightful memoirs, British wildlife preservation pioneer a...
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The Ark's Anniversary
The conservationist whose work inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu recounts the early years of the Durrell Wildlife Park. At the age of six, Gerald Durrell confidently told his mother he would one day have his own...
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The Bafut Beagles
Travel to the wilds of Cameroon with the conservationist whose work inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu on public television. In 1949, Gerald Durrell embarks with fellow zoologist Kenneth Smith on an expedition to collect rare a...
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The Aye-Aye and I
The author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV series The Durrells in Corfu, recounts his expedition to Madagascar to find the Aye-aye.In 1990, Gerald Durrell; his wife, Lee; and a television crew embarked on a rescue mission to o...
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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
Uproarious antics fill this genre-crossing collection of six stories from the beloved British naturalist and author of the Corfu Trilogy. The eccentric Durrell family sets off on an ill-fated excursion in "The Picnic" and embarks on a Gree...
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Fillets of Plaice
The author of the Corfu Trilogy -- the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu -- reflects on a life spent among humans and animals.In My Family and Other Animals and its sequels, Gerald Durrell writes of his family's antics ...
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The Overloaded Ark
Gerald Durrell, former director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his books about collecting wild animals. This text describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence....
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Toby the Tortoise
Gerald, a boy growing up on the Greek island of Corfu, rescues a land tortoise from the sea and introduces it into the company of the frogs, toads, snakes, crabs, octopuses, and other animal friends he has cultivated...
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The Talking Parcel
Penelope, Peter, and Simon, after finding a two-voiced parcel, journey to Mythologia, where they meet all the legendary beasts as they strive to save the magical land from the gruesome, evil Cockatrices...
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The Billion Dollar Brain
The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil war breaks out, and the island is invaded not only by the British Military, but by the world press and a fanatical group of conservationists - and all because of a silly bird....
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Mockery Bird
The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil war breaks out, and the island is invaded not only by the British Military, but by the world press and a fanatical group of conservationists - and all because of a silly bird....
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The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories
Tongue-in-cheek irony and genuine humanity infuse a collection of short stories in which nothing--a family picnic, a tour of the English countryside, a three-day cruise around the Greek isles--goes as planned...
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A Zoo in My Luggage
A British naturalist founds a zoo in this memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy -- the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu.For many years I had wanted to start a zoo. . . . Any reasonable person smitten with an ambiti...
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The Drunken Forest
Gerald Durrell's Adventurous spirit and spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote ensure his books a place among the best sellers. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. W...
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
The Durrell family returns to the island of Corfu, continuing the story begun in My Family and Other Animals. Already an ardent naturalist at the age of 10, the young Gerald lives in an unconventional and disordered household with his mother, sister,...
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The Battle for Castle Cockatrice
What do you get when you cross a bunch of odious toads and ornery fire-breathing birds with one parrot, a distressed dragon, a group of weasels, a troop of mermaids, a herd of unicorns, a band of gryphons, and three children? When Penelope, Simon,...
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Three Singles to Adventure
Journey to South America on a search for endangered species with the author of My Family and Other Animals. In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preser...
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Catch Me a Colobus
The author provides a humorous account of his experiences maintaining a zoo on the Isle of Jersey and exploring the wilds for animals to add to his collection, revealing his concern for the protection of endangered species...
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Rosy Is My Relative
"An 'almost true' tale" of a man's adventures inheriting an elephant, so "lovingly embellished . . . you'll almost wish that you had a Rosy in your family too" -- from the author of the Corfu Trilogy (Kirkus Reviews). When his uncle pas...
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My Family and Other Animals
Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart...my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like ...
