Gerald Durrell is among the best-selling authors in English. His adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote stand out in his accounts of expeditions in Africa and South America in search of rare animals. He divines the characters of these creatures with the same clear, humorous and unsentimental eyes with which he regards those chance human acquaintances whose conversation in remote places he often reproduces in all its devastating and garbled originality. To have maintained, for over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of entertainment can only be described as a triumph. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but also to endear itself to you. 'His sympathy with the animal world encourages the Disney in every creature to show itself' "Time And Tide"

A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize truffling pig in France, an aging Memphis belle, a gambling nun in Monte Carlo, and a foul-mouthed parrot

Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but seriously endangered species. To rescue some of these creatures from extinction, Gerald Durrell spent uncomfortable nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their varied multicoloured marine life. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius.'Highly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph'A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time' Sir David Attenborough

Product Description: At that moment came a noise like somebody breaking the backbone of a whale and the palm leaf punka crashed straight onto the table, one end of it completely obliterating the District Commissioner. 'Oh my God!' screamed Mary, upsetting her gin and tonic...read more

Product Description: 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 television films for the BBC...read more

Product Description: When Gerald Durrell was six he told his mother that he intended to have his own zoo. This is the story of how he achieved his ambition - and how his dream grew into The Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, to become a major world force in wildlife conservation...read more

Product Description: If you loved My Family and Other Animals and can't get enough of the Durrells after the Corfu series, this is the book for you. It constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including 'The Picnic', a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair...read more

Product Description: 'What we tried to do in Jersey is create a new sort of zoo. I think we have succeeded.'In this important book Gerald Durrell describes his battles to create his vision of a new sort of zoo at Jersey with descriptions of his successes and failures with a liberal sprinkling of zoo animal tales on the way...read more

Product Description: A pot-pourri of humorous animal anecdotes concocted by the famous wildlife lover, leading conservationist and award-winning author, Gerald Durrell. Hectic, hilarious days at his Jersey zoo and forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction provide a series of wonderful stories that are wry, witty and wonderful...read more

Product Description: Con El jardín de los dioses -libro tan ingenioso y apasionante como Mi familia y otros animales y Bichos y demás parientes- se cierra la divertida trilogía en la que Gerald Durrell rememora su estancia en la isla de Corfú antes de la Gran Guerra...read more

Product Description: Gerald Durrell combina en sus libros el retrato de gentes y lugares, la autobiografía y un insuperable sentido del humor. Mi familia y otros animales es sin duda su obra más conocida y celebrada. Primera parte de su divertida trilogía de Corfú, que prosigue con Bichos y demás parientes y El jardín de los dioses, la obra no...read more

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Product Description: El humor desenfadado, la capacidad de observación y el talento literario para describir la vida animal brillan en este libro de Gerald Durrell con la misma fuerza que en su trilogía sobre Corfú, formada por Mi familia y otros animales, Bichos y demás parientes y El jardín de los dioses...read more

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