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Jan 7, 1925 — Jan 30, 1995· 70 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · ANIMALS · ZOOLOGY

Gerald Malcolm Durrell

Also known as: Gerald Durrell, Gerald M. Durrel

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British naturalist and author, founder of the Jersey Zoo (now called the Durrell Wildlife Park). Many of his books deal with collecting animals for zoos but he later became more concerned with conservation (Wikipedia).

Jamshedpur, United Kingdom
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THIS is the chronicle of a six-month trip that my wife and I made to Bafut, a mountain grassland kingdom in the British Cameroons in West Africa.

— from A Zoo in My Luggage

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A Zoo in My Luggage

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Birds, Beasts and Relatives

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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is the second volume of the autobiographical Corfu Trilogy by naturalist Gerald Durrell. The trilogy describes his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. This follows My family and Other Animals and concludes with The Garden Of The Gods

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My Family and Other Animals (Cascades)

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