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Gerald Durrell (1925–1995)

Autor von Meine Familie und anderes Getier

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Gerald Durrell was born on January 7, 1925 in Jamshedpur, India to British parents. After the death of his father in 1928, the family lived in England and Europe before settling in Corfu, where he spent much of his childhood. Educated by private tutors, he became interested in natural history and mehr anzeigen amassed a private collection of dozens of creatures from scorpions to owls. He went on numerous wildlife expeditions and founded the Jersey Zoological Park and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust with the purpose of breeding endangered species. His first book, The Overloaded Ark, was published in 1953. He wrote 37 books during his lifetime including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, A Zoo in My Luggage, Rosy Is My Relative, and The Mockery Bird. He received the Order of the British Empire in 1982 and was featured in the United Nations' Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement in 1988. He died from complications related to a liver transplant on January 30, 1995 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

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Werke von Gerald Durrell

Meine Familie und anderes Getier (1953) 5,227 Exemplare
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) 1,266 Exemplare
A ZOO in My Luggage (1960) 912 Exemplare
Gerald Durrells Naturführer. (1983) 624 Exemplare
The Drunken Forest (1956) 623 Exemplare
Fillets of Plaice (1971) 614 Exemplare
Menagerie Manor (1964) 580 Exemplare
The Corfu Trilogy (2006) 554 Exemplare
Two in the Bush (1966) 504 Exemplare
Eine Verwandte namens Rosy. (1968) 488 Exemplare
ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS. (1958) 480 Exemplare
Nichts als Tiere im Kopf. (1973) 459 Exemplare
The Overloaded Ark (1953) 453 Exemplare
Großes Herz für kleine Tiere. (1954) 444 Exemplare
Die Tiere in meiner Arche. (1976) 300 Exemplare
The Aye-Aye and I (1992) 272 Exemplare
The New Noah (1955) 221 Exemplare
Das geheimnisvolle Paket (1974) 197 Exemplare
Der Spottvogel (1981) 176 Exemplare
Beasts in My Bed (1967) — Footnotes — 156 Exemplare
The Ark's Anniversary (1990) 145 Exemplare
The Fantastic Flying Journey (1987) 142 Exemplare
The Donkey Rustlers (1968) 133 Exemplare
Durrell in Russia (1986) 87 Exemplare
My Favourite Animal Stories (1962) 67 Exemplare
The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure (1989) — Autor — 49 Exemplare
Ark on the Move (1983) 39 Exemplare
Puppy's Field Day (1993) 35 Exemplare
Puppy Goes to Pets Day (1993) 32 Exemplare
Best of Gerald Durrell (1996) 31 Exemplare
Wild Time (1993) 30 Exemplare
Toby the Tortoise (1991) 30 Exemplare
Puppy's Beach Adventure (1993) 30 Exemplare
Keeper (1822) 29 Exemplare
Island zoo (1989) 22 Exemplare
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio Two (1993) — Vorwort — 14 Exemplare
Selected Works (1981) 13 Exemplare
My Family and Other Animals (Adapted) (2019) — Original author — 12 Exemplare
A Collection of Action Stories (1988) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Classic Animal Stories (1989) 5 Exemplare
Letayuschiy dom (2018) 3 Exemplare
June Book 1963 (1962) 2 Exemplare
Malysh i more (2019) 1 Exemplar
Plekstes filejas (2000) 1 Exemplar
Ņirgu putns (2004) 1 Exemplar
Puteshestvie k dinozavram (2018) 1 Exemplar
Zvēru sabiedrībā (2002) 1 Exemplar
Durrell Gerald 1 Exemplar
Šķirsta jubileja (2003) 1 Exemplar
Complete Novels 1 Exemplar
Look at Zoos (1969) 1 Exemplar
A Bevy of Beasts (1973) 1 Exemplar
Search for a Zoo 1 Exemplar
Putni, zvēri un radinieki (2001) 1 Exemplar
Una educación de élite (1998) 1 Exemplar
Un ‰albero pieno d'orsi (1997) 1 Exemplar

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Das grosse Weltreich der Tiere (1984) — Vorwort — 233 Exemplare
Watchers at the Pond (1961) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben150 Exemplare
Whatever Happened to Margo? (1995) — Preface, einige Ausgaben115 Exemplare
Best Dog Stories (1990) — Einführung — 112 Exemplare
On the Track of Unknown Animals (1958) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben110 Exemplare
Foundations of Fear (1992) — Mitwirkender — 97 Exemplare
Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories (1979) — Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare
The Enchanted Canopy (1986) — Vorwort — 47 Exemplare
The Durrells in Corfu Series 1 (2016) — Original book — 34 Exemplare
Twelve Gothic Tales (Oxford Twelves) (1998) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1982) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
Zoo: The Modern Ark (1990) — Vorwort — 26 Exemplare
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
Animal Stories: Tame and Wild (1979) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
My Family and Other Animals [2005 film] — Based on the book by — 14 Exemplare
Favorite Animal Stories (1987) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Encyclopedia of Natural History (1978) — Vorwort — 9 Exemplare
My Family And Other Animals [1987 TV mini series] (1987) — Original book — 8 Exemplare
Chimps with Everything: The Story of Twycross Zoo (1979) — Vorwort — 7 Exemplare
A brush with animals (1963) — Einführung — 6 Exemplare
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Three Great Animal Stories (1966) 2 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Durrell, Gerald Malcolm
Geburtstag
1925-01-07
Todestag
1995-01-30
Begräbnisort
Jersey Zoo
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
UK
Land (für Karte)
England, UK
Geburtsort
Jamshedpur, India
Sterbeort
St Helier, Jersey, Bailiwick of Jersey
Todesursache
sepsis
Wohnorte
Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
Ausbildung
Wickwood School
Berufe
naturalist
author
conservationist
zookeeper
Beziehungen
Durrell, Lawrence (brother)
Durrell, Margaret (sister)
Durrell, Jacquie (wife)
Durrell, Lee (2nd wife)
Organisationen
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Jersey Zoo, now renamed Durrell Wildlife
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Order of the British Empire (Officer)
Kurzbiographie
Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.

On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone. He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist.

In 1958 Gerald Durrell realised a lifelong dream when he set up the Jersey Zoological Park, followed a few years later by the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.

Rosy is My Relative, his first novel, was published in 1968. Whether in a factual account of an expedition or a work of non-fiction, Gerald Durrell's style is exuberant, passionate and acutely observed. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

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Not the book I remember enjoying as a child. This is.... not great now. It doesn't hold up well over the years, nor does it hold up well to an adult reader.
 
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73pctGeek | 149 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 5, 2024 |
The Aye-Aye and I is the tale of Gerald Durrell's visit to Madagascar, during which time he is able to secure several critically endangered aye-ayes and return them to his captive breeding facility on the island of Jersey. In my opinion, it is the best of his animal-collecting books, and it is the last of that series that Durrell penned. The book seemed to be imbued with more passion for preserving wildlife than any of his other non-fiction works, and ended with tales of his sojourns in Mauritius, and the successes he and his team had had on that island, retrieving endangered birds, and returning them in greater numbers to the wild. It was wholly a diverting book, and I enjoyed it greatly.… (mehr)
 
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ahef1963 | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 26, 2024 |
Mikor éppen nem állatgyűjtő expedíciókat vezetett a világ legkülönfélébb vidékeire, vagy nem a maláriától feküdt lázas betegen, netán újabb könyvét írta, Gerald Durrell állattani előadásaival kápráztatta el a rádió hallgatóságát. Olyannyira lenyűgözve őket, hogy kikövetelték tőle a sorozat írott változatát is - ez lett a Vadak a vadonban, melyben a megszokott szórakoztató módon számol be nyugat-afrikai találkozásáról a petymegekkel, dél-amerikai kalandjáról egy kajmánnal, a világ legpompásabb nászruhájával rendelkező paradicsommadarakról, a tigrisek, a vízilovak vagy az ájtatos manók udvarlási szokásairól. Ahogy büszkén emlékezik meg arról is, hogyan segített tegzeslárvák építkezésein, s miként dédelgetett egy lidérces kinézetű ostorlábút, aki a Wilhelmina névre hallgatott. De feltárja a pöfögőfutrinkák védekezési és támadási szokásait és lerántja a leplet az útonálló darázs rovarvilágbeli műtétjeiről is, amelyek gyakorlott sebészeket is eltűnődésre késztetnek. Mindezek mellett láthatjuk esetlen próbálkozásait, amint egy kengurubébit próbál felnevelni, vagy elszánt bátorságát, amikor kígyóverembe ereszkedik alá álmából felverve az afrikai éjszaka közepén. Az argentin pampák veterán gauchójával való nanduvadászata pedig egyenesen burleszkbe illő epizód.… (mehr)
 
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Tompowsky | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 26, 2024 |
Funny and at times sad tales of animals in the zoo that became the New Jersey Wildlife Trust.
 
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ritaer | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 1, 2024 |

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