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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals TVTI by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
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. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell fam ...Show more
Rosy is My Relative by Gerald Durrell
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
What does a young man bequeathed £500 and an elephant with a taste for liquor do? Adrian Whistle thinks he has the answer - he'll give her to the circus. But it isn't so easy. Together Adrian and Rosy cut a swathe of terror and destruction through the peaceful countryside of southern England. Drunk or s ...Show more
The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell
Category: Nature
'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 privileged to meet.'The fourth la ...Show more
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography
The trilogy that inspired ITV's television 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 available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
Category: Classics
'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 owners of a small zoo on the island ...Show more
Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell
Category: Fiction
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 Preservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the English Channe ...Show more
Two in the Bush by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography
Two in the Bush is a record of the six-month journey which took Gerald Durrell, his wife Jacquie, and two cameramen through New Zealand, Australia and Malaya. The object was, first, to see what was being done about the conservation of wild life in these countries, and, secondly, to make a series of tele ...Show more