Based on the broadcasts made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC, this is a vividly entertaining account of the animals he discovered and observed from Argentina to Africa and from Greece to Guiana. We...

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...I had had my first encounter with...

Gerald Durrell, the former Director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. 'The Overloaded Ark' describes an expedition to the...

Gerald Durrell was a zoo enthusiast from the age of two when he started collecting everything alive, from minnows to woodlice. When, finally, he decided to set up the Jersey Wildlife Preservation...

In Corfu, Mother is given a calamitous birthday party which starts with the hi-jacking of the icebox and ends with the entire gathering marooned on a remote and deserted beach.At a dinner party...

I walked up to the booking-office and uttered the magic words: ‘Three singles to Adventure, please,’ I said. ‘First or second class?’ said the clerk...

So begins Gerald...

We find Gerald Durrell coping with uncooperative animals and TV producers during the filming of 'The Amateur Naturalist'.

What does a young man bequeathed £500 and an elephant with a taste for liquor do? Adrian Rookwhistle thought he had the answer, he'd give her to a circus. But it wasn't so easy. Together Adrian...

The Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust is Gerald Durrell’s dream come true. At the age of six he told his mother that he intended to start a zoo. Here he celebrates his zoo’s 25th and the...

Gerald Durrell revisits his family’s five-year sojourn on the Greek island of Corfu in this sequel to 'My Family and Other Animals'.

Already an avid naturalist at the age of ten,...