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GERALD DURRELL
THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Douglas Botting |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0006387306 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780006387305 |
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| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
20 March, 2000 |
| Pages: |
672 |
| Description: |
The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy 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. |
| Synopsis: |
The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy 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 thirty-seven 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 twelve 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. |
| Illustrations: |
24 b/w plates, (3 x 8pp), Index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for BP Natural World Book Prize 1999 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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