Gerald Durrell · The Authorised Biography by Botting, Douglas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Epigraph Contents 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 About the Author Praise By the Same Author Copyright About the Publisher