![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Uproarious tales of the island’s animals and Durrell’s fond reflections on his family bring this delightful memoir to life. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. Soon, toads and tortoises, bats and butterfliesas well as scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, praying mantises, octopuses, pigeons, and gullsbecame a common sight in the Durrell villa. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. His first television programme, Two in the Bush, which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962 he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. ![]()
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