Gerald durrell

My Family and Other Animals, a very charming and hilarious PBS production based upon the autobiography of British naturalist Gerald Durrell

THE Durrells is on TV tonight bringing with it hilarious stories about the adorable family. But who were the real-life Durrells that inspired this wonderful show? We have the lowdown… Who wer…

Naturalist, Zookeeper and Writer. He was the brother of writer Lawrence Durrell. His best-known book is My Family and Other Animals. Also he wrote Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. He founded the Jersey Zoological Park on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958. In 1982, he received the Order of the...

My Family and other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell, unknown edition,

The real story of the Durrells in Corfu. An eccentric and a little crazy family lived in Corfu from 1936 to 1939 in Kontokali, Kalami, and Perama.

The author, conservationist and avid nature-lover describes his childhood in Corfu with the 'recollections of a child in a kind of earthy paradise,' in his book, My Family and Other Animals, finds Jack Watkins.

When the writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell visited an American university in 1977, one student was thrilled to meet her hero. Later on, he invited Lee to Jersey to work with him – but that was a ploy

He was the father of conservation whose memoir of a childhood on Corfu became a classic. As ‘My Family and Other Animals’ turns 60, Simon Barnes celebrates the extraordinary Gerald Durrell

David Attenborough with Gerald Durrell (1959)

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