The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he-d dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation.Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some thirty-seven immensely readable yarns, including the bestselling -My Family and Other Animals-. His other books include -Birds, Beasts and Relatives-, -The Bafut Beagles- and -A Zoo in My Luggage-.Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented twelve series himself - the early ones, of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: -He was responsible for changing people-s attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephants-He was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour.-His brother was the famous writer
