When Mother starts showing an interest in passion-flowers the children decide it is time she got married again.The romantic island of Corfu is unable to produce many suitable candidates, but...

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...

Gerald Durrell describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs, he captured almost everything, from flying mice to...

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...

The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War.For the passionate young zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with...

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...