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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...