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List Of Works By Gerald Durrell
This is a list of works by Gerald Durrell. Bibliography Autobiographical * ''The Overloaded Ark'' (Faber and Faber, 1953) * ''Three Singles to Adventure'' (''Three Tickets to Adventure'') (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954) * ''The Bafut Beagles'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954) * ''The New Noah'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955) * ''The Drunken Forest'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956) * ''My Family and Other Animals'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956) – first in the Corfu trilogy * ''Encounters with Animals'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958) * ''A Zoo in My Luggage'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960) * ''The Whispering Land'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961) * ''Menagerie Manor'' (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964) * ''Two in the Bush'' (HarperCollins, Collins, 1966) * ''Birds, Beasts, and Relatives'' (Collins, 1969) - second in the Corfu trilogy * ''Fillets of Plaice'' (Collins, 1971) * ''Catch Me a Colobus'' (Collins, 1972) * ''Beasts in My Belfry'' (''A Bevy of Beasts'') (Collins, 1973) * ''The Stationary Ark'' (Collins, 1976) (mainly non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Durrell
Gerald Malcolm Durrell Order of the British Empire, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservation movement, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Durrell, Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled ''The Overloaded Ark'', sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published ''My Family and Other Animals'', which became a bestse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
