{"product_id":"9780006387305","title":"Gerald Durrell : The Authorised Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Botting, Douglas \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/03\/2000,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 672 pages, 24 b\/w plates, (3 x 8pp), Index,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006387305,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some thirty-seven immensely readable yarns, including the bestselling ‘My Family and Other Animals’. His other books include ‘Birds, Beasts and Relatives’, ‘The Bafut Beagles’ and ‘A Zoo in My Luggage’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented twelve series himself – the early ones, of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: ‘He was responsible for changing people’s attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephants…He was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697437016108,"sku":"9780006387305","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780006387305.jpg?v=1722595143","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780006387305","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}