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MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS - GERALD DURRELL KA...

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur  India  in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before
settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park
as a student keeper  and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the
Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions  visiting Paraguay  Argentina 
Sierra Leone  Mexico  Mauritius  Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme  Two in
the Bush ¿ which documented his travels to New Zealand  Australia and Malaya was made in 1962 
he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the
Jersey Zoological Park  and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was
awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother  Durrell
published his first book  The Overloaded Ark   in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went
on to write thirty-six other titles  including My Family and Other Animals   The Bafut Beagles
Encounters with Animals   The Drunken Forest   A Zoo in My Luggage   The Whispering Land  
Menagerie Manor   The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I . Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

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