A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him to become a researcher when he was growing up in what was then the Soviet ...

The conservationist Gerald Durrell’s first dog, Simon, was a coward. To the honey-coloured cocker spaniel, a garden hose was as deadly as a spitting cobra, and he once went into a nervous decline ...

Tuesday 7th January 2025, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, the world-renowned author and naturalist Gerald Durrell. To mark the ...

TWO IN THE BUSH by Gerald Durrell. 255 pages. Viking. $4.95. A reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or ...

Gerald Durrell’s Corfu was, like most Edens of youth, a paradise ultimately lost. To read his memoirs of those early days is to regain that vanished world in all its former vitality—and to remember ...

I sometimes say that My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell’s autobiographical novel from 1956 – saved my life. My ...

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS (273 pp.)—Gerald Durrell—Viking ($3.95). THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (277 pp.)—Rose Macaulay—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.75). When an irresistible force called a tourist meets ...

The series was first released back in 2016 and is based on the autobiographical memoirs of Gerald Durrell.

The second in an occasional series about the books that spurred our love of travel. On every trip that involves wildlife, I have a secret urge to pocket the animals and take them home. I know this is ...

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