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The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation. Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some thirty-seven immensely readable yarns, including the bestselling 'My Family and Other Animals'. His other books include 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives', 'The Bafut Beagles' and 'A Zoo in My Luggage'. Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented twelve series himself - the early ones, of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: 'He was responsible for changing people's attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephants...He was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour.' His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.

Book details

Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Wildlife: general interest

• Full title: Gerald Durrell
• Author: Douglas Botting
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672
• EAN: 9780006387305
• ISBN: 0006387306
• ID: 04000737
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 135 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. March 2000

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