My Family and Other Animals (Macmillan Collector’s Library)

Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas. Gerald Durrell was a naturalist, author, media personality, conservationist and founder of both the internationally renowned Jersey Zoo and what is now known as the Durrell Wildlife Preservation Trust. A passionate and inspiring advocate of the need for the conservation of animals and plants and their habitats, he was also a brilliant storyteller. His early family life forms the basis for the ITV drama, The Durrells. Though he had almost no formal education he became a prolific writer, publishing numerous articles and thirty-seven books including Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods, before his death in 1995, aged seventy. Acknowledgements – ii: A Message from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Acknowledgements – iii: Afterword