my family and other animals by gerald durrell

It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.

His first television programme, Two in the Bush which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962 he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. Contemporary / British English This very funny story is about an English family who go to live on the Greek island of Corfu. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. 02-Audiobook - Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals - 04 Addeddate 12:38:46 Externalmetadataupdate Identifier 02-audiobook-geralddurrell-myfamilyandotheranimals-04 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals First UK Edition 1956 SIGNED SKU: 14280 Description A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. The first book Gerald Durrells Corfu Trilogy a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now the inspiration for The.

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925.

My family and other animals by gerald durrell