![]() ![]() This book is great - is this still something that can be done? can i, karen t. and gerald is a man not afraid to get his hands dirty or bitten by a snake or pecked by a bird which is a perfect contrast to "larry" (sadly almost-unmentioned in this book) with his lavender and lemon palette and his casual intellectual dilettantes basking in the alexandrian air. and i appreciate lawrence durrell like nobody's business, but if ever someone needed to be taken down a peg. I have been meaning to read him for ages now, especially since i learned that he frequently deflates pompous brother lawrence in his books in a good-natured brotherly way. How great is gerald durrell? did someone say "very great?" because that is the correct answer. There are three sad books awaiting reviews before this one, but i don't even care, because this one needs to be reviewed right now!! sorry, marguerite duras! let's call this even!! Gerald Durrell's style is exuberant, passionate and acutely observed. In 1958 Gerald Durrell realised a lifelong dream when he set up the Jersey Zoological Park, followed a few years later by the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.ĭurell was married twice Jacquie Durrell (1951-1979), Lee Durrell (1979-1995). Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist. ![]() He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. ![]() His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. ![]()
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