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Gerald Durrell
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My Family and Other Animals
• Gerald Durrell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2004 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A hilarious book about growing up on Corfu in the 1930s. In this memoir, Durrell recounts sparkling anecdotes of his childhood -- not least his passion for the toads, tortoises, bats, scorpions and other creatures that he discovered on the island. Originally published in 1956.
(GRE35, $15.00) |
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The Whispering Land
• Gerald Durrell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
Durrell's sparkling account of an eight-month jaunt on the trail of fur seals, guanaco, parrots and other Patagonian marvels.
(PAT13, $15.00) |
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A Zoo in My Luggage
• Gerald Durrell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2005 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Durrell's delightful memoir of a six-month collecting trip to British Cameroon for his new zoo, originally published in 1960. The mission gets funnier in England as Durrell and his wife struggle to find a permanent home for their exotic animals. By the author of Birds, Beasts & Relatives, and My Family and Other Animals.
(WAF78, $14.00) |
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
• Gerald Durrell
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Tels of his eccentric family and passion for all things wild on the island of Corfu continue.
(MED80, $15.00)
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Fillets of Plaice
• Gerald Durrell
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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More delightful tales of Durrell's engagingly eccentric family and passion for all things in nature, including chapters on Corfu, his misadventures in the British Cameroons and back home in Jersey. The title is a spoof on elder brother Lawrence's Spirit of Place.
(GRE356, $15.95)
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Menagerie Manor
• Gerald Malcolm Durrell
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Another delightful tale from the charming Durrell, who treats us to the story of how he and his wife founded their own private zoo on an island in the English Channel.
(GBR684, $13.00)
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My Family and Other Animals
• Sheree Folkson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Durrell's delightful tales of his eccentric family and passion for all things wild on the island of Corfu in the 1930s.
(GRE357, $19.95)
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The Aye-Aye and I
• Gerald Durrell
• NATURAL HISTORY
• COMING IN
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The engaging and extremely amusing story of a serious scientific effort to retrieve, and help save, the rare aye-aye of Madagascar.
(MAD10, $14.95)
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