Gerald durrell

Naturalist, Zookeeper and Writer. He was the brother of writer Lawrence Durrell. His best-known book is My Family and Other Animals. Also he wrote Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. He founded the Jersey Zoological Park on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958. In 1982, he received the Order of the...

The author, conservationist and avid nature-lover describes his childhood in Corfu with the 'recollections of a child in a kind of earthy paradise,' in his book, My Family and Other Animals, finds Jack Watkins.

THE Durrells is on TV tonight bringing with it hilarious stories about the adorable family. But who were the real-life Durrells that inspired this wonderful show? We have the lowdown… Who wer…

Gerald Durrell's warmly self-mocking storytelling about five blissfully chaotic years of childhood in Corfu has been resuscitated in this cheerful production.

My Family and Other Animals, a very charming and hilarious PBS production based upon the autobiography of British naturalist Gerald Durrell

THE Durrells is on TV tonight bringing with it hilarious stories about the adorable family. But who were the real-life Durrells that inspired this wonderful show? We have the lowdown… Who wer…

David Attenborough with Gerald Durrell (1959)

He was the father of conservation whose memoir of a childhood on Corfu became a classic. As ‘My Family and Other Animals’ turns 60, Simon Barnes celebrates the extraordinary Gerald Durrell

Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald, Kathleen Jamie and other contemporary writers choose the books that made them fall in love with the natural world