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A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
Category: Classics
'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo ...any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. "A Zoo in My Luggage" ...Show more
Beastly Journeys - Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals by Dervla Murphy; David Attenborough; Jonathan Scott; Gerald Durrell; Hilary Bradt; Mark Shand
Category: Nature | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, f ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
Category: Nature | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Birds, Beasts And Relatives (Corfu trilogy #2) by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The follow up to My Family and Other Animalsand the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, 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 four children, ten ...Show more
Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell
Category: Nature
'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 his travels were some of the first ...Show more
Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: A\Nonpareil Book Ser.
Fillets of Plaice combines Gerald Durrell's love for animals in all their forms with the humorous anecdotes about his family for which he is so well known from My Family and Other Animals and its sequels. Larry, Margot, Leslie and Mother are all present and correct, but so too are spiders, lizards and w ...Show more
Marrying off Mother and Other Stories by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics
'Which of these stories is true and which is semi-true I have, of course, not the slightest intention of telling you, but I hope this will not detract from your enjoyment ...' Gerald Durrell introduces an eccentric cast of characters in this entertaining collection of stories, first published in 1991. I ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: Popular Penguins 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 G ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals 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 G ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Category: Education | Series: A\Puffin Book 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 G ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Collector's Library) by Gerald Durrell
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and ...Show more