Gerald Durrell by Douglas Botting

Gerald Durrell by Douglas Botting

The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged 70 in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation. Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some 37 immensely readable yarns, including the bestselling My Family and Other Animals. His other books include Birds, Beasts and Relatives, The Bafut Beagles and A Zoo in My Luggage. Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented 12 series himself - the early ones, of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: 'He was responsible for changing people's attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephants... He was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour.' His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.

Douglas Botting's biography of GAVIN MAXWELL was hugely praised and is still in print as a HarperCollins paperback. His previous books reflect his interest in travel, exploration and wild places. He was an exploration film-maker for the BBC's 'World About Us' and became a full-time writer with the publication of his highly praised biography of the German explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt and the Cosmos.

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ISBN 13	9780002556606
ISBN 10	000255660X
Title	Gerald Durrell
Author	Douglas Botting
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1999-03-15
Number of pages	672
Prizes	Short-listed for BP Natural World Book Prize 1999
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