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Gerald Durrell) BIBLIOTECA TECLA SALA April 20, 2017 My Family And Other Animals (Gerald Durrell) The world is as delicate and as complicated as a spider’s web. If you touch one thread you send shudders running through all the other threads. We are not just touching the web we are Contents: tearing great holes in it. Gerald Durrell - A 2 Brief Biography My Family And Other 3 Gerald Durrell Animals - About [https://www.durrell.org/about/gerald-durrell/gerald- A Triumph Of 4-7 durrell/] Conscious Craft Notes 8 Page 2 Gerald Durrell - A Brief Biography Gerald Durrell was born in Encouraged by Lawrence, he aged 70. He left an indelible Jamshedpur, India, on 7th began writing stories of his mark on the conservation January 1925. Following the animal escapades for magazi- world and a valuable legacy death of his father in 1928 the nes and radio broadcasts, for future generations. family moved back to the UK, publishing his first book, The Gerry’s mission and vision but spurred on by Gerald’s Overloaded Ark, in 1953. He continue through the tireless oldest brother, Lawrence, eventually wrote 33 books, work of Durrell’s dedicated they soon returned to a war- including the best-selling The conservationists throughout mer climate, this time the Bafut Beagles, A Zoo in My the world. island of Corfu. Luggage, Catch Me a Colobus, The Stationary Ark, The Ark’s Here Gerald Durrell’s in- Anniversary and, his final book, [https://www.durrell.org/ terest in animals and all things The Aye-aye and I, published in about/gerald-durrell/gerald- living blossomed, fuelled by a 1992. friendship with Dr Theodore durrell/] Stephanides, whose fascinati- Gerry’s unique insight into on with the animal world the animal kingdom and the inspired the 10-year-old Ge- engaging humour with which rald. he described his adventures made him one of the most In 1939, with a war looming, widely read authors of animal the Durrell family moved stories. His humorous ac- back to the UK and settled in count of his Corfu childhood, the coastal town of Bourne- My Family and Other Animals, mouth. Gerald started has sold millions of copies working in a local pet shop worldwide and his books ha- and then as a stable-hand and ve been translated into 31 riding instructor. After the languages. war, he became a student keeper at the Zoological Soci- Gerry also hosted seven tele- ety of London’s Whipsnade vision series as well as making Park to gain experience with numerous appearances on a wider variety of animals. television and radio program- mes. His early years of collec- At the age of 21 he inherited ting expeditions were filmed £3,000 with which he finan- by the BBC Natural History ced, organised and led his first Unit. Later series, including animal collecting expedition – The Amateur Naturalist and to the British Cameroons. Durrell in Russia, were filmed For the next ten years he by independent producers for travelled to many lesser Channel 4 and subsequently known parts of the world, sold to networks and satellite acquiring animals for the ma- stations in over 40 countries, jor British zoological gardens. reaching 150 million viewers. During brief interludes Gerald Durrell died on Ja- between expeditions, Gerry nuary 30th 1995, in Jersey, launched his second career. Page 3 My Family And Other Animals - About The Book My Family and Other Animals claimed to find writing a cho- pite the omissions and inaccu- (1956) is an autobiographical re, this book was different: his racies, Lawrence Durrell work by British naturalist first wife Jacquie recalled commented "This is a very Gerald Durrell. It tells of the "Never have I known Gerry wicked, very funny, and I'm years that he lived as a child work as he did then; it see- afraid rather truthful book – with his siblings and widowed med to pour out of him". the best argument I know for mother on the Greek island Durrell maintained "he had keeping thirteen-year-olds at of Corfu between 1935 and started off like a good cook boarding-schools and not 1939. It describes the life of with three ingredients which, letting them hang about the the Durrell family in a humo- delicious alone, were even house listening in to conver- rous manner, and explores better in combination: na- sations of their elders and the fauna of the island. It is mely, the spellbinding landsca- betters". the first and most well-known pe of a Greek island before of Durrell's 'Corfu trilogy,' tourism succeeded in spoiling The book was first published together with Birds, Beasts, it for tourists; his discovery of by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd in and Relatives and The Garden and friendship with the wild 1956 and in paperback by of the Gods (1978). denizens, both animal and Penguin Books in 1959 and Greek, of that island; and the has remained in print ever Durrell had already written eccentric conduct of all mem- since. several successful books bers of his family." The book about his trips collecting ani- was an instant success. mals in the wild for zoos [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ when he published My Family Although My Family is presen- My_Family_and_Other_Anim and Other Animals in 1956. Its ted as autobiographical, if not als] comic exaggeration of the completely objective, the foibles of his family – especi- events described are not ally his eldest brother Law- always true – in particular rence Durrell, who became a Larry lived in another part of celebrated novelist and poet Corfu with his first wife – and his heartfelt appreciati- Nancy Durrell, whom Gerald on of the natural world made does not mention at all. The it very successful. Durrell was chronology of events as they able to found the Jersey Zoo- occur in the book is also inac- logical Park (now known as curate, and the reason for the the Durrell Wildlife Park) in Durrells' departure from the Channel Islands. He also Corfu (World War II) is not became known as a novel- given; instead, it is implied writer and television persona- that the family returned to lity. His books helped stimula- England for the sake of Ge- te the development of rald's education. tourism in Corfu. However, the book does suc- The book was written in ceed in preserving the im- 1955 in Bournemouth, where pressions of ten- to fifteen- Durrell was recuperating year-old Gerald extremely from a severe attack of jaun- vividly and with a great deal dice. Whereas Durrell often of light-hearted humour. Des- Page 4 A Triumph of Conscious Craft [Simon Barnes celebrates the olchildren have grown up "The instant I met him it was 60th anniversary of My Family with the story of the Durrell as if a 1,000-watt lightbulb And Other Animals.] family's stay on their paradise had been switched on," Lee, island of Corfu in the five who is now 66, says. "The years leading up to the out- power, the energy, the charis- Gerald Durrell was a man of break of the Second World ma – you knew at once that paradise. Paradise found, pa- War. And to mark the anni- you were in the presence of radise lost, paradise regained, versary of the book ITV will someone." The Jersey pro- paradise destroyed, paradise next year broadcast a drama ject, she says, "felt like a dreamed in a vision of hope, series called The Durrells, ba- pretty enormous undertaking, paradise under siege, paradise sed on that same impossible but I went into it with my relieved, paradise unattaina- experience of paradise. A big eyes wide open. I knew that I ble, paradise built with his Gerald Durrell moment is was taking on a man and his own hands. Paradise was his upon us, not least because vision, and these things really business, his life, his des- the work of the Durrell couldn't be separated. And I troyer, his salvation. Wildlife Conservation Trust, wanted to do it with him." which he founded in 1959, is He produced a literary mas- Durrell died 21 years ago. He more important than ever. terpiece that remains the wrote more than 40 books, finest evocation of paradise The focal point of the Trust is most of them overflowing ever written. He built a para- a wildlife park – always envi- with light and life and humour dise based on his own beliefs saged by Durrell as "a statio- and joy. He was a man who of what a zoo should be. And nary ark" – that operates on knew black despair and bre- after his death in 1995, he left Jersey, where his widow Lee akdown but went on to find behind an organisation that still lives in the house she redemption. He was a man works to restore a touch of shared with him, working as ahead of his time; all conser- paradise to humanity and to the Trust's honorary direc- vationists are agreed on that. everything else that lives. tor. He was the first person with "The world needs Durrell," a large public following to She was just 29 when they says Sir David Attenborough. make the extinction crisis married, in 1978; Durrell was Durrell is a voice, an exam- plain. But he preached not a damaged visionary of 53. ple, a legacy, a belief, a cause. doom but action. He wanted They met while she was And while his message has the world to understand that studying communication in never gone away, it will be practical conservation is the lemurs, which made her proclaimed with renewed essential task of humankind – doubly irresistible.
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