Gerald Durrell
British naturalist, writer and television presenter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerald Malcolm Durrell, was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals . Those memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into two television series and one television film . He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.
Gerald Durrell's Published Works
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- The stationary ark (1976) (14)
- Breeding Mascarene wildlife in captivity (1980) (9)
- A Zoo in My Luggage (1960) (9)
- The Overloaded Ark (1953) (8)
- The Volcano rabbit: in the wild and at Jersey Zoo (1970) (7)
- Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons (1977) (7)
- JERSEY WILDLIFE PRESERVATION TRUST (1966) (7)
- Madagascar: A World Out of Time (1991) (6)
- Why zoos? (1985) (5)
- The Garden of the Gods (1978) (5)
- The Whispering Land (1962) (4)
- Encounters With Animals (1958) (4)
- The amateur naturalist (1982) (4)
- The Drunken Forest (1956) (4)
- The Aye-Aye and I (1992) (3)
- Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) (3)
- The New Noah (1955) (3)
- Catch Me A Colobus (1972) (3)
- Two in the Bush (1966) (2)
- Rosy Is My Relative (1968) (2)
- Gerald & Lee Durrell in Russia (1986) (1)
- Three Singles to Adventure (1969) (1)
- Fillets of Plaice (1971) (1)
- A Bevy of Beasts (1973) (1)
- Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia (1984) (0)
- The illustrated history of the natural world : a presentation of the animal kingdom with 200 full-color prints (1990) (0)
- The aye-aye and I : a rescue expedition in Madagascar (1993) (0)
- The Encyclopedia Of Natural History (1978) (0)
- Oliver Goldsmith's History of the natural world : the animal kingdom described and illustrated with 200 colour engravings (1990) (0)
- My Family And Other Animals The Bafut Beagles The Drunken Forest Encounters With Animals A Zoo In My Luggage The Whispering Land Menagerie Manor (1981) (0)
- My Brother Larry (1987) (0)
- Closure to “Discussion of ‘Repeated Load Triaxial Testing of Frozen and Thawed Soils’ by Hamdy Youssef” by D. M. Cole, G. Durrell, and E. Chamberlain (1986) (0)
- PCB source and natural alteration patterns in sediments of Lake Hartwell and Twelve-mile Creek, South Carolina. (2004) (0)
- Breeding the Szechuan White eared pheasant at Jersey Zoo (1971) (0)
- Best Dog Stories (1990) (0)
- Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories (1991) (0)
- Three tickets to adventure (1955) (0)
- Hold that tiger (1993) (0)
- [News and Views] (0)
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