Corfu Trilogy (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Corfu Trilogy (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Suitable for adults and children alike, this title includes three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - 'My Family and Other Animals', 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives' and 'The Garden of the

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

The first book Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBSWhen the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

Volume two in The Corfu Trilogy, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on PBS Masterpiece Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969

Garden of the Gods (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Gerald Durrell - The Authorised Biography (Botting Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for

The Durrells of Corfu (Haag Michael)(Paperback)

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisterscomplain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on thelunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bitlike a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfullypursues his interest in natural history

Přetížená archa - Gerald Durrell

Světoznámý přírodovědec a spisovatel Gerald Durrell se vypravil do afrického Kamerunu, aby pro britské zoologické zahrady nachytal vzácné exotické živočichy. Byla to jeho první cesta za zvířaty vůbec a rozhodně nešlo o žádnou nudnou vědeckou výpravu. Chytit luskouna,

Tři jízdenky do Dobrodružství - Gerald Durrell

Světoznámý přírodovědec a spisovatel Gerald Durrell se vypravil do jihoamerické džungle, aby pro britské zoologické zahrady nachytal vzácné exotické živočichy. Jenže tahle cesta rozhodně není žádná nudná vědecká výprava. Chytit mravenečníka, elektrického úhoře,

Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

Růženka je z příbuzenstva - Gerald Durrell

Jeden z nejoblíbenějších románů anglického humoristy a přírodovědce Geralda Durrella milují čtenáři na celém světě. Líčení trampot mladého úředníka, kterému připadá život příliš jednotvárný a neustále touží po dobrodružství. Jeho sny se naplní v okamžiku, kdy

Růženka je z příbuzenstva - Gerald Durrell - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Slavný a oblíbený humoristický román britského přírodovědce Geralda Durrella o nečekaném dědictví, které obrátí Hadriánovi život doslova na ruby. | Slavný britský humoristický román o neobvyklém dědictví, který milují čtenáři na celém světě. Hadrián

The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980 (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: '...Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels.' Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked

Zoo in My Luggage (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Journeying to Cameroon, the author and his wife collected numerous mammals, birds and reptiles, including Cholmondely the chimpanzee and Bug-eye the bush-baby. This title offers an account of his attempt to set up his own zoo, after years spent gathering animals for other

Sicilian Carousel (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Despite decades spent poetically evoking Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus, and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily. For years, his friend Martine begged him to visit her on this sun-kissed paradise, but

Aye-Aye and I (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

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 ...it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life ...one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to

Whispering Land (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

The author and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one. So the author heads off to South America to collect more animals. This title offers an account of his journey into the South American

Zlatí netopýři a růžoví holubi - Gerald Durrell - audiokniha

Audiokniha:,Kdyby Durrell dorazil včas, možná by blboun nejapný nevymřel. Vtipná i poučná kniha o velké výpravě za záchranou ohrožených druhů ptáků a plazů na ostrově Mauricius v Indickém oceánu. Když Portugalci objevili v Indickém oceánu souostroví později nazvané

Whatever Happened to Margo? (Durrell Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Crucifox (Clarkson Geraldine)(Paperback / softback)

Veveřácká kronika - Kateřina Soukupová

V nejlepších tradicích zvířecích knih Geralda Durrella zachycuje Kateřina Soukupová sedmileté každodenní pozorování divoké veverky Pinky, která se usídlila v těsné blízkosti samoty, kde autorka žije. Intimní, zasvěcený a především čtivě napsaný pohled do soukromého

Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic