Gerald Durrell libro Mi familia y otros animales
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE fue un autor, naturalista, conservacionista, zoólogo y presentador de televisión británico. Fundó el Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust y el Zoo de Jersey en la isla de Jersey en 1958, pero es más conocido como escritor de libros autobiográficos, coleccionista de animales y entusiasta de la naturaleza. Era hermano del conocido novelista Lawrence Durrell.

Gerald Durrell libro Mi familia y otros animales
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell libro Mi familia y otros animales
My Family and Other Animals
We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners...
Fuente: Dos en Bush (1966) [referencia incompleta]
Gerald Durrell libro The Talking Parcel
The Talking Parcel
“No hay primer mundo y tercer mundo. Solo hay un mundo para todos nosotros para vivir y disfrutar.”
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Fuente: Introducción al Estado del Arca (1986) de Lee McGeorge Durrell. [referencia incompleta]
Gerald Durrell libro Mi familia y otros animales
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 309.
Fuente: Mi familia y otros animales
Fuente: Encounters with Animals (1958).[referencia incompleta]
Introduction to Quest for the Kakapo (1989) by David Butler, p. 6
Gerald Durrell libro Fauna and Family
On a magic trick shown by family friends
The Garden of the Gods (1978)
“His pen squeaking like a demented wren as he wrote copious notes.”
Rosie Is My Relative (1968)
The Stationary Ark (1976)
Written by Durrell at age ten (1935), from Gerald Durrell: An Authorized Biography by Douglas Botting (1999), p. 43, ISBN 0-786-70655-4
The Stationary Ark (1976)
Gerald Durrell libro Fauna and Family
"Dear God," said Larry, "who thought of those names?" "Theodore" "They wanted to call it something much more....complex, but Margo couldn't be trusted to pronounce them properly" "One must be thankful for small mercies"
The Garden of the Gods (1978)