The book, which Gerald wrote when he was 30, has never been out of print and has sold millions of copies worldwide, entertaining adults and making English lessons bearable for generations of ...

My Family and Other Animals 60th anniversary: Gerald Durrell's book is a triumph of conscious craft He was the father of conservation whose memoir of a childhood on Corfu became a classic. As ...

Durrell began writing to fund his work as a conservationist and later as a zookeeper, and he produced 37 books. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust of which Mrs Durrell, 62, is ...

Edition X of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet 2021, in association with Victoria Memorial Hall and The Telegraph, hosted a magical evening of remembering Gerald Durrell and his Corfu Trilogy with ...

It was Gerald Durrell's book that inspired the ITV series Credit: Getty - Contributor He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Park on the Channel Island of ...

Among those gems are the works of Gerald Durrell, in which he tells the tales of capturing rare animals in West Africa and South America for zoos, from after World War II through the 1960s.

Penguin Modern Classics will publish Gerald Durrell’s "beloved" accounts of his childhood spent in Corfu to mark the centenary of his birth. The Corfu trilogy – which comprises My Family and ...

That’s all the more reason for readers to check out Durrell’s books for themselves. Gerald Durrell was a British naturalist who lived between 1925 and 1994.

When one looks back at Gerald Durrell’s wildlife writing, it makes one wonder why the author himself did not think much of it at all. In fact, the naturalist and conservationist, who would have turned ...

I have been invited here by Dr Lee Durrell, Gerald's widow, to observe what she calls 'something really Durrelly'. As well as being an author – he wrote 37 books – and animal collector, Gerald ...