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  • My Family and Other Animals

    Series Book 1 - The Corfu Trilogy
    A naturalist's account of his childhood on the exotic Greek island—the inspiration for the Masterpiece TV series The Durrells in Corfu on PBS.When the Durrells could no longer endure the gray English climate, they did what any sensible family would do: sold their house and relocated to the sun-soaked island of Corfu.As they settled into their new home, hilarious mishaps ensued as a ten-year-old ... Read more

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  • The Corfu Trilogy

    My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts and Relatives; and The Garden of the Gods

    Series series The Corfu Trilogy
    National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television ... Read more

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  • Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals

    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, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which wild animals somehow came along for the ... Read more

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  • A Zoo in My Luggage

    Series Book 1 - The Zoo Memoirs
    A British naturalist founds a zoo in this memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu.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 ... Read more

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  • Rosy Is My Relative

    A Novel

    From the author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV series The Durrells in Corfu , a comic novel about a boy who inherits an elephant.When his uncle passes away unexpectedly, young Adrian Rookwhistle's inheritance turns his humdrum life upside down. Instead of a manor house, Adrian has been bequeathed Rosy, an elephant whose predilection for fine spirits leads to high jinks ... Read more

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  • The Bafut Beagles

    Travel to the wilds of Cameroon with the conservationist whose writing inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu on PBS.In 1949, Gerald Durrell embarks with fellow zoologist Kenneth Smith on an expedition to collect rare animals in the British Cameroons in West Central Africa. There, he meets the Nero-like local ruler, the Fon of Bafut, who likes a man who can hold his liquor—will ... Read more

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  • The Aye-Aye and I

    The author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV series The Durrells in Corfu , recounts his expedition to Madagascar to find the Aye-aye.In 1990, Gerald Durrell; his wife, Lee; and a television crew embarked on a rescue mission to one of the most interesting places in the world: the island of Madagascar. It was there that they hoped to record and capture the endangered aye-aye, ... Read more

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  • The Zoo Memoirs

    A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, and Menagerie Manor

    Series series The Zoo Memoirs
    The British naturalist and bestselling author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu—founds a zoo.In this trio of delightful memoirs, British wildlife preservation pioneer and national bestselling author Gerald Durrell recounts the ups and downs he faces in transforming his lifelong dream of creating a new kind of zoo into a reality.A Zoo in My ... Read more

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  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

    A Journey to the Flora and Fauna of a Unique Island

    Travel to Mauritius on a quest to save endangered species with the British naturalist whose work inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu.The green and mountainous island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean was once the home of the ill-fated dodo. The island saw many other animals vanish from its soil, and by the 1970s, numerous species were close to being eliminated. Enter Gerald ... Read more

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  • The Ark's Anniversary

    The conservationist whose work inspired the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu recounts the early years of the Durrell Wildlife Park.At the age of six, Gerald Durrell confidently told his mother he would one day have his own zoo. She told him it was a lovely idea and promptly forgot all about it. But the young naturalist's passion wasn't about to fade away any time soon.Written for the ... Read more

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  • Myself and Other Animals

    A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist to celebrate the centenary of his birth

    **A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne.‘Gerald Durrell was magic’ SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH‘A wise, genial and world-encompassing book’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Fills important gaps in the biographical narrative . . . Truly, there is magic here’ GUARDIAN**Myself and Other Animals is a ... Read more

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  • Fillets of Plaice

    The author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production T he Durrells in Corfu— reflects 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 vividly describes his expeditions to other, faraway places.In Fillets of Plaice, ... Read more

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