Gerald Durrell

Gerald ('Gerry') Durrell (January 7, 1925 - January 30, 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, best known for founding the Jersey Zoological Park (now known as the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) on the Channel Island Jersey in 1958, and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting expeditions.

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Durrell's books, which include several novels for children, have a wry but loose style that poked fun at himself as well as those around him. Perhaps his best-known book is My Family and Other Animals (1956), which tells of his idyllic, if oddball, childhood on Corfu. Later made into a TV series, it is delightfully deprecating about the whole family, especially elder brother Lawrence Durrell, who later became a famous novelist. Despite Durrell's jokes at the expense of "brother Larry," the two were close friends all their lives.

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1956 - Lawrence Durrell

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Nonfiction

• The Overloaded Ark (1953)
• The Bafut Beagles (1954)
• Three Singles to Adventure (1954)
• The Drunken Forest (1956)
• My Family and Other Animals (1956)
• Encounters with Animals (1958)
• A Zoo in My Luggage (1960)
• Island Zoo (1961)
• Look At Zoos (1961)
• The Whispering Land (1961)
• Menagerie Manor (1964)
• Two in the Bush (1966)
• Birds, Beasts And Relatives (1969)
• Fillets of Plaice (1971)
• Catch Me a Colobus (1972)
• Beasts in My Belfry (1973)
• The Stationary Ark (1976)
• Golden Bats And Pink Pigeons (1977)
• The Garden of the Gods (1978)
• The Picnic And Suchlike Pandemonium (1979)
• The Amateur Naturalist (1982) (with Lee Durrell) (1982)
• Ark On the Move (1982)
• How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist (1984)
• Durrell in Russia (1986) (with Lee Durrell)
• The Ark's Anniversary (1990)
• Marrying Off Mother (1991)
• The Aye-aye And I (1992)

Fiction

• The Donkey Rustlers (1968)
• Rosie Is My Relative (1968)
• The Talking Parcel (Battle for Castle Cockatrice) (1974)
• The Mockery Bird (1981)
• The Fantastic Flying Journey (1987)
• The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure (1989)
• Keeper (1990)
• Toby the Tortoise (1991)