A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him to become a researcher when he was growing up in what was then the Soviet ...

Tuesday 7th January 2025, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, the world-renowned author and naturalist Gerald Durrell. To mark the ...

The second in an occasional series about the books that spurred our love of travel. On every trip that involves wildlife, I have a secret urge to pocket the animals and take them home. I know this is ...

The conservationist Gerald Durrell’s first dog, Simon, was a coward. To the honey-coloured cocker spaniel, a garden hose was as deadly as a spitting cobra, and he once went into a nervous decline ...

Gerald Durrell’s Corfu was, like most Edens of youth, a paradise ultimately lost. To read his memoirs of those early days is to regain that vanished world in all its former vitality—and to remember ...

A new type of beetle has been named in tribute to Gerald Durrell, the author and naturalist who founded Jersey Zoo. The species was christened Macratria durrelli by Natural History Museum insect ...

The Durrells is a British comedy-drama series that tells the story of a single mother Louisa Durrell, who raises her four children after her husband’s death. The series is based on Gerald Durrell’s ...

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS (273 pp.)—Gerald Durrell—Viking ($3.95). THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (277 pp.)—Rose Macaulay—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.75). When an irresistible force called a tourist meets ...

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