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A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo ...any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. "A Zoo in My Luggage" ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first ...Show more
Marrying off Mother and Other Stories by Gerald Durrell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pan Heritage Classics
'Which of these stories is true and which is semi-true I have, of course, not the slightest intention of telling you, but I hope this will not detract from your enjoyment ...' Gerald Durrell introduces an eccentric cast of characters in this entertaining collection of stories, first published in 1991. I ...Show more
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up...I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo. "Menagerie Manor" is the hugely entertaining account of how the wel ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$12.99 NZD
Category: Books of Buderim | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Collector's Library) by Gerald Durrell
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals TVTI by Gerald Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell fam ...Show more
Rosy is My Relative by Gerald Durrell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What does a young man bequeathed £500 and an elephant with a taste for liquor do? Adrian Whistle thinks he has the answer - he'll give her to the circus. But it isn't so easy. Together Adrian and Rosy cut a swathe of terror and destruction through the peaceful countryside of southern England. Drunk or s ...Show more
The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'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 . . . it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life . . . one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet.'The fourth la ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more