Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography

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Douglas Botting. Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography

GERALD DURRELL

Copyright

Praise

Epigraph

Contents

Preface

Prologue

ONE Landfall in Jamshedpur India 1925–1928

TWO ‘The Most Ignorant Boy in the School’ England 1928–1935

THREE The Gates of Paradise Corfu 1935–1936

FOUR The Garden of the Gods Corfu 1937–1939

FIVE Gerald in Wartime England 1939–1945

SIX Odd-Beast Boy Whipsnade 1945–1946

SEVEN Planning for Adventure 1946–1947

EIGHT To the Back of Beyond First Cameroons Expedition 1947–1948

NINE In the Land of the Fon Second Cameroons Expedition 1948–1949

TEN New Worlds to Conquer Love and Marriage 1949–1951

ELEVEN Writing Man 1951–1953

TWELVE Of Beasts and Books 1953–1955

THIRTEEN The Book of the Idyll 1955

FOURTEEN Man and Nature 1955–1956

FIFTEEN ‘A Wonderful Place for a Zoo’ 1957–1959

SIXTEEN A Zoo is Born 1959–1960

SEVENTEEN ‘We’re All Going to be Devoured’ Alarms and Excursions 1960–1962

EIGHTEEN Durrell’s Ark 1962–1965

NINETEEN Volcano Rabbits and the King of Corfu 1965–1968

TWENTY Crack-Up 1968–1970

TWENTY-ONE Pulling Through 1970–1971

TWENTY-TWO The Palace Revolution 1971–1973

TWENTY-THREE Gerald in America 1973–1974

TWENTY-FOUR ‘Two Very Lost People’ 1975–1976

TWENTY-FIVE Love Story: Prelude 1977–1978

TWENTY-SIX Love Story: Finale 1978–1979

TWENTY-SEVEN A Zoo with a View 1979–1980

TWENTY-EIGHT Ark on the Move From the Island of the Dodo to the Land of the Lemur 1980–1982

TWENTY-NINE The Amateur Naturalist 1982–1984

THIRTY To Russia with Lee 1984–1985

THIRTY-ONE Grand Old Man 1985–1991

THIRTY-TWO ‘Details of my Hypochondria’ 1992–1994

THIRTY-THREE ‘A Whole New Adventure’ 1994–1995

Afterword

The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Sources

Bibliography

Index

About the Author. GERALD DURRELL

By the Same Author

About the Publisher

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THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY

Douglas Botting

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Lonely evenings, where Mother had only myself, aged nine, as company. So loneliness, of course, nudged Mother closer and closer to the Demon Drink. Larry, recognising the pitfalls, decided that decisive action must be taken and told Mother he thought we ought to up sticks and go and join George in Corfu. Mother, as usual, was hesitant.

‘What am I supposed to do with the house?’ she asked.

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