Gerald Durrell Audio Books

Gerald Durrell describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs, he captured almost everything, from flying mice to booming squirrels.

This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....

The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War....

In Corfu, Mother is given a calamitous birthday party which starts with the hi-jacking....

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo in Jersey....

When Mother starts showing an interest in passion-flowers the children decide it is time she got married again....

I walked up to the booking-office and uttered the magic words: 'Three singles to Adventure, please,' I said. 'First or second class?' said the clerk....

In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes....

We find Gerald Durrell coping with uncooperative animals and TV producers during the filming of The Amateur Naturalist....

Gerald Durrell was a zoo enthusiast from the age of two when he started collecting everything alive, from minnows to woodlice....