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A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
Category: Science & Natural History
'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: Biography & Memoir
There were, unfortunately, no schools for incipient animal collectors and none of the professional collectors then operating would take on anybody who had only unbounded enthusiasm and very little practical experience to offer. Gerald Durrell, who would one day become a much-loved conservationist and au ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | 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: Science & Natural History
'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
Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell
Category: Fiction
The celebrated naturalist and author of the Corfu Trilogy, shares more humorous reflections 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 during their time on the Greek island of Corfu. In his later memoirs, he vivi ...Show more