“gerald durrell”

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. "My Family and Other Animals" was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up ... More

uritius, once the home of the ill-fated Dodo (Symbol of Gerald Durrell's Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust), still has amongs its fauna many unique but endangered species, among them Mauritian kestrels, Telfair's skinks, Gunther's geckos and Pink pigeons. When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of... More

"A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss." - Sunday Telegraph "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 Times "Durrell manages to convey not o... More

In these eight stories, which feature the author himself, naturalist Durrell contrasts human and animal behavior. The entire collection is prefaced by an epigram from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary : "Bride--a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her." The reader soon finds the same p... More

Gerald Durrell describes his first encounter with the legendary Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger that lurks in the forests of Madagascar. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye - one of the world's strangest creatures - is now found only in small colonies. "If only animals could speak the... More