Durrell's account of his early years as a keeper at Whipsnade Zoo filled with the usual assortment of animal characters, ... Read More

A big and rather beautiful tree grew a couple of hundred yards from the verandah just below us. There was a crash and rustle am... Read More

Entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars and characters of animals encountered in West Africa, South America, and elsewher... Read More

Mauritius, once the home of the ill-fated Dodo (symbol of Gerald Durrell's Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust), still has among... Read More

In these eight stories, which feature the author himself, naturalist Durrell contrasts human and animal behavior. The title sto... Read More

Menagerie Manor is Gerald and Jacquie Durrell's account of how they set up their zoo in Jersey. Surrounded by a team o... Read More

The author Gerald Durrell is an animal lover and this is one of his humorous stories. The story starts by a young man, Adrian R... Read More

"In the gloom it came along the branches towards me - its round, hypnotic eyes blazing; its spoon-like ears turning to and... Read More

This is the story of Gerald Durrell's animal collecting expedition to Argentina and Paraguay in 1954. As in Durrell's other boo... Read More