Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart - my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home.

Contains three books - My Family and Other Animals , Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . Offering portraits of the author's family and their many unusual hangers-on, this work also captures the beginnings of his lifelong love of animals.

It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family, with its many eccentric hangers-on, or the animals. In this work, the author studies and brings back to the strawberry pink, the daffodil-yellow, or the snow-white villa.

Presents an account of how the author fulfilled a lifelong ambition by founding his very own private zoo in Jersey. This book shows how, with the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grew. Illustrated by Ralph Thompson, it discusses the trials and wonders of living in the middle of a zoo.

In 1950, Gerald Durrell travelled to British Guiana to bring back a living collection of the fauna native to that corner of South America. There he met with many kinds of adventure: some amusing, some thrilling and some extremely irritating.

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) This very funny story is about an English family who go to live on the Greek island of Corfu. Gerald, the youngest boy, loves animals and insects. He brings scorpions, spiders, birds, snakes and other animals to the house, and they get him into lots of trouble.

Whether getting dirty mucking out the buffalo enclosure or attempting to cajole a skittish gnu into a transportation crate, life in the zoo is certainly never boring. The author, who is also a conservationist, dreamt of running his own zoo. He takes his first step towards fulfilling his ambition as a student keeper in Whipsnade Park in 1945.

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect 'plenty beef.' Their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home, with Cholmondely the chimpanzee, Bug-Eye the bush-baby, and other founder members... and nowhere to put them

Madagascar is home to five per cent of the world's plant and animal species. When Gerald Durrell visited, creatures like the aye-aye were in danger of vanishing. He decided to undertake a rescue mission to bring aye-ayes back to his breeding centre. This is the tale of his hunt for the aye-aye, and the adventures he had.

Tells of the author's early life with his 'family and other animals' in Corfu where he lived as a boy.

Mauritius was once the home of the ill-fated dodo. The indigenous flora and fauna of Mauritius were, by the 1970s, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails. When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly.

A hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. It tells how journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect 'plenty beef.' It tells that their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home, with Cholmondely the chimpanzee.

Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. In a series of colourful villas, the Durrells give a sometimes reluctant home to a trail of local fauna.

'On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens... In an incredibly short space of time, a numb

An irresistible collection of the very best of Gerald Durrell's writings, selected by his widow Lee Durrell.

A humourous and motivating autobiography. A family moves to Corfu, and their hilarious meetings with the local people, birds and beasts are sure to delight the student.

Gerald Durrell, former director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his books about collecting wild animals. This text describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence.