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Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography

By (author) Douglas Botting

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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 heâ€™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 â€˜My Family and Other Animalsâ€™. His other books include â€˜Birds, Beasts and Relativesâ€™, â€˜The Bafut Beaglesâ€™ and â€˜A Zoo in My Luggageâ€™. Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented twelve series himself â€“ the early ones, of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: â€˜He was responsible for changing peopleâ€™s attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephantsâ€¦He was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour.â€™ His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.