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‘A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time’ SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH‘An account of Durrell’s very first job, as an animal handler at Whipsnade, just after the end of the Second World War, an experience that helped fashion his philosophy of animal...
A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth'Gerald Durrell was magic' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGHMenagerie Manor chronicles the early, sunlit days of Gerald Durrell’s dream to create a sanctuary for animals, realized Les Augrès...
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-encompassing book’ SUNDAY...
My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells. The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald DurrellEscaping the ills of the British...
The third book inThe Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television seriesThe Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of...
The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book inThe Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television seriesThe Durrells.In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young Gerry continues to be...
'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes . . . it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life . . . one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been...
'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.'Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud...
'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on...
*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells*Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are...
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. It is also the first book in Durrell's Corfu Trilogy, which inspired ITV's television series The Durrells....
The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect 'plenty beef.' Their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home,...
À l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Durrell se réfugient sur l’île de Corfou, où le plus jeune des quatre enfants, Gerald, se découvre une passion pour les animaux : crapauds, tortues, chauves-souris, papillons, scorpions ou pieuvres… À travers les oliveraies...
' On aurait dit que la nature avait organisé un gigantesque raout de bouteilles, auquel elle avait convié un étrange aréopage de plantes tempérées, tropicales et subtropicales. Les palmiers se penchaient paresseusement et les épineux s’enroulaient autour d’eux en une...
Des bergers à la peau tannée et des comtesses enfarinées, des chiens en pagaille, des olives juteuses et des amandiers en fleur, des criques secrètes et des grenouilles de toutes dimensions. Gerald Durrell raconte l’âge d’or que représenta pour lui la parenthèse...
À la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Lawrence Durrell, futur auteur du Quatuor d'Alexandrie, fuit l'hiver anglais avec sa mère, sa sœur Margo, cœur d'artichaut, ses frères Leslie, autoritaire chasseur en herbe, et 'Gerry', éminent zoologiste d'une douzaine...
Corfou, morceau de terre bénie des dieux jeté au large des côtes grecques. Sur cette île aux mille merveilles, un repaire indo-britannique : la villa des Durrell, excentrique royaume des bêtes et des réceptions mondaines. On y retrouve 'Mère' et ses quatre enfants :...
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