Gerald Durrell has written several picture books for children, from board books to illustrated stories. They all draw heavily on his experiences with animals and childhood, and are basically more child friendly versions of his autobiographical anecdotes. Like his other books, there’s either a young boy, a young man or a jovial, elderly uncle-type figure […]
Books about Establishing and running Jersey Zoo and his early work at Whipsnade Zoo In 1939, the Durrells returned to London because of WW2. During this time, Gerald Durrell worked in an aquarium, a pet store, on a farm for the war effort, and finally in Whipsnade Zoo as part of a deliberate attempt to […]
Famous for his writing and his conservation, Gerald Durrell was a a collector for zoos (both other people’s and his own), and went on many expeditions all over the world. To fund many of these expeditions, he published books about them, which were (and still are) incredibly popular. His earlier and his later expeditions are quite […]
The best selling stories of Gerald Durrell’s childhood on Corfu with his family and his animals From 1935 to 1939, the Durrell family escaped from England and emigrated to sunny Corfu, an island off the coast of Greece. Here a young Gerald Durrell roamed wild, collecting everything from geckoes to birds, met many strange characters […]