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COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

PRAISE

EPIGRAPH

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

PART 1: ‘The Boy’s Mad … Snails in his Pockets!’

1 Landfall in Jamshedpur: India 1925–1928

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

3 The Gates of Paradise: Corfu 1935–1936

4 The Garden of the Gods: Corfu 1937–1939

5 Gerald in Wartime: England 1939–1945

6 Odd-Beast Boy: Whipsnade 1945–1946

7 Planning for Adventure: 1946–1947

PART 2: Promise Fulfilled

8 To the Back of Beyond: First Cameroons Expedition 1947–1948

9 In the Land of the Fon: Second Cameroons Expedition 1948–1949

10 New Worlds to Conquer: Love and Marriage 1949–1951

11 Writing Man: 1951–1953

12 Of Beasts and Books: 1953–1955

13 The Book of the Idyll: 1955

14 Man and Nature: 1955–1956

15 ‘A Wonderful Place for a Zoo’: 1957–1959

PART 3: The Price of Endeavour

16 A Zoo is Born: 1959–1960

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

18 Durrell’s Ark: 1962–1965

19 Volcano Rabbits and the King of Corfu: 1965–1968

20 Crack-Up: 1968–1970

21 Pulling Through: 1970–1971

22 The Palace Revolution: 1971–1973

23 Gerald in America: 1973–1974

24 ‘Two Very Lost People’: 1975–1976

25 Love Story: Prelude: 1977–1978

26 Love Story: Finale: 1978–1979

PART 4: Back on the Road

27 A Zoo with a View: 1979–1980

28 Ark on the Move: From the Island of the Dodo to the Land of the Lemur 1980–1982

29 The Amateur Naturalist: 1982–1984

30 To Russia with Lee: 1984–1985

31 Grand Old Man: 1985–1991

PART 5: A Long Goodbye

32 ‘Details of my Hypochondria’: 1992–1994

33 ‘A Whole New Adventure’: 1994–1995

AFTERWORD

THE DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST

SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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