Gerald Durrell
The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conserv...
Durrells of Corfu
The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? ...
Gerald Durrell Collection
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Collected box set of three documentaries about legendary naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, who died in 1995, and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust which he founded. David Attenborough introduces an overview of Durrell's life in 'Himself and Other Animals', with contributions from John Cleese. In 'To the Island of the Aye-Aye' Durrell takes a film crew to Madagascar to capture one of the endangered creatures so he can establish a breeding programme to ensure its survival. In 'Jambo the Gentle Giant' John Nettles narrates the story of Jambo the gorilla, a resident at Jersey Zoo, which was founded by Durrell. In the late 1980s Jambo made headlines after a young boy fell into his enclosure; Jambo protected the injured child from other gorillas and cared for him until he could be recovered.Typ: DVD / Box Set
Myself and Other Animals
A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne. 'Gerald Durrell was magic' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH 'A wise, genial and world-encomp...
My Family and Other Animals
Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Gerald Durrell''s much-loved comic gem. My Family and Other Animals is the classic tale of naturalist Gerald Durrell''s magical 1930s childhood on pre-war Corfu. His descri...
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time ‘When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light’ - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ‘Gerald Durrell was magic’ - Sir David Attenborough 'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’ It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.
Gerald Durrell: Jambo the Gentle Giant
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.John Nettles narrates the extraordinary story of Jambo the gorilla at naturalist Gerald Durrell's famous Jersey Zoo. When a young boy fell into the gorilla enclosure in 1986, onlookers were horrified when the injured boy was approached by Jambo, a male silverback. To everyone's amazement however, Jambo protected the boy from the other gorillas until he could be rescued. This documentary tells the full story of the Jersey Zoo's gorilla family and includes the dramatic news footage that did more than anything to change people's perceptions of the gorilla.Typ: DVD
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun...
Whatever Happened to Margo?
*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a hos...
The Overloaded Ark
Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence. 'A delightfu...
The Dunes
Geralds exfru planerar att flytta till andra sidan landet med sin nya pojkvän och hon planerar även att ta med deras gemensamma son, något som Gerald till varje pris tänker förhindra.
The Garden of the Gods
Gerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' - Sunday Telegraph ‘My collection of animals swelled to a point where even Mother occasionally grew alarmed’ The island of Corfu, where the Durrell family live in agreeable chaos, is paradise for aspiring naturalist Gerald. His battalion of creatures has grown to include eleven puppies, a toad named Dierdre and an unwelcome infestation of scorpions. Yet the human visitors to their sun-drenched villa are even more curious, whether it is an innocent pair of American painters ripe for practical jokes, or a supercilious Count who barely survives an outing on Gerald’s home-made boat, the Bootle-bumtrinket. The third volume in the Corfu Trilogy brings this glorious tale of halcyon days to a close.
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell's classic memoir of growing up on Corfu with an afterword by Peter Olney, former Keeper of Birds at the London Zoo.
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we all need,' s...
My Family and Other Animals
Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, th...
Marrying off Mother and Other Stories
"All of these stories are true," states Gerald Durrell in the preface to this newest collection of his fiction, but he quickly amends, "To be strictly accurate, some are true, some have a kernel of truth and a shell of embroidery.&q...
Gerald Finzi
The music of Gerald Finzi, whose popularity has recently enjoyed a great resurgence, is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers of the early part of this century for whom song writing was a principal means of ...
Whispering Land
'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.' Gerald Durrell and hi...
Moja semja i drugie zveri. Trilogija
'Trilogija o Korfu' - eto 'knigi, zavorazhivajuschie v bukvalnom smysle slova' (Sunday Times) i 'samaja voskhititelnaja idillija, kakuju tolko mozhno voobrazit' (The New Yorker). S neizmennoj ljubovju, bezuprechnoj tochnostju i nepodrazhaemym jumorom Darrell rasskazyvaet o pjatiletnem prebyvanii svoej semi (v tom chisle starshego brata Larri, to est Lourensa Darrella - buduschego avtora znamenitogo 'Aleksandrijskogo kvarteta') na grecheskom ostrove Korfu. Romany razoshlis po miru mnogomillionnymi tirazhami, stali nastolnymi knigami uzhe u neskolkikh pokolenij chitatelej, a v Anglii dazhe voshli v shkolnuju programmu. Trilogija (so vremenem razrosshajasja do shesti knig) trizhdy perenosilas na teleekran, prichem poslednij raz - v 2016-2019 godakh, kogda britanskaja kompanija ITV vypustila chetyre sezona seriala 'Darrelly', odnim iz postanovschikov kotorogo vystupil Edvard Kholl ('Abbatstvo Daunton', 'Miss Marpl Agaty Kristi'). Romany publikujutsja v novom, polnom perevode, vypolnennom
Rosy is My Relative
Rosy is My Relative
Corfu Trilogy
*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells* Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gera...
Zoo in My Luggage
'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted...
Encounters with Animals
'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the ani...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Volume Two of Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'A lot of frolic, fun and charming ribaldry, as well as the warm feeling of having been transported to a lovely spot where ...
My Family And Other Animals
'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas'It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive 'like a troupe of medieval tumblers' on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell's beloved portrayal of his chaotic family - beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie - as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.
Aye-Aye and I
'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes . . . it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life . . . one of the most incredible cr...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, y...
Garden of the Gods
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glor...
Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories
Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories
Herald
A thousand years ago, humanity's greatest heroes killed God. Now, under the brutal rule of warrior-kings, the land of Helesia has fallen to chaos. Demons stalk the deep forests, monsters roam free of their prisons beneath the World Vein, and ancient terrors rise again. History is written in blood, but the future will be forged in holy fire... Renira Washer lives the dreary life of a laundry girl, dreaming of adventure. When a stranger from her mother's past appears with a dire warning, Renira's peaceful life is shattered and she's thrown headfirst into a millennia old war between Heaven and earth. In Renira's blood, hides a secret: the angels are not all gone. Only the Herald can ring in the Fifth Age. Only the Herald can bring the God back to life. A new epic fantasy saga, where humans can steal magic and immortality by devouring angels, starts here with HERALD. Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson, John Gwynne, or Ryan Cahill.
