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Gerald Durrell

Douglas Botting · 1999

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Biography of the world-famous naturalist, popular author & zookeeper who wrote, in all, some 37 books. He paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television & presented 12 series himself the early ones, of his own expeditions. This a biography of Gerald Durrell, world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some 37 books. Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented 12 series himself the early ones, of his own expeditions.

First sentence: Gerald Malcolm Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, Bihar Province, India, on 7 January 1925, the fourth surviving child of Louisa Florence Durrell (nee Dixie), aged thirty-eight, and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, forty, a civil engineer.

Book details

Year
1999
Language
English
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Editions
3
Pages
672
ISBN
9780786707966

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