Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography

(6)
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography image
ISBN-10:

0786707968

ISBN-13:

9780786707966

Author(s): BOTTING, Douglas
Released: Oct 28, 2000
Publisher: Carroll&Graf
Format: Paperback, 672 pages

Description:

Written with complete access to the Durrell family archives and Gerald Durrell's private papers, this affecting biography follows its subject from an eccentric boyhood in Imperial India to the international prominence he gained in print and on television as one of the world's foremost animal conservationists. The younger brother of the famous novelist Lawrence Durrell, Gerald always viewed his own writing - which includes thirty-seven bestsellers, among them enduringly popular classics like My Family and Other Animals and A Zoo in My Luggage - as the means of financing his greatest passion: breeding animals in danger of extinction and returning them to the wild. In the 1980s, with the production of a dozen different television documentary series on zoology, most notably the widely acclaimed Catch Me a Colobus and Ark on the Move, Durrell's conservationist vision reached audiences around the globe, while the zoo he founded on the island of Jersey realized his pioneering mission to breed endangered species in captivity. It stands as a living legacy of the much-admired Gerald Durrell, who died in 1995 at the age of seventy. "Captivating and deeply moving but surprisingly candid biography." - Publishers Weekly (starred review); "Ambitious.... Rich material for a biography." - New York Times Book Review; "Affectionate yet clear-eyed portrait.... Botting does an excellent job of giving us Durrell the man, not merely the legend." - Toronto Globe & Mail; "Few current biographies read as well." - Denver Post.

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780786707966




Related Books

Frequently Asked Questions about Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography

You can buy the Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $6.35 on Amazon and is available from 13 sellers at the moment.

At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $4.51. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.

If you’re interested in selling back the Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

The Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 3,964,250 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.

Not enough insights yet.