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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
672
Utgivningsdatum
2000-03-01
Upplaga
New e.
Utmärkelser
Short-listed for BP Natural World Book Prize 1999
Förlag
HarperCollins
Illustratör/Fotograf
24 b, w plates Index
Illustrationer
24 b/w plates, (3 x 8pp), Index
Dimensioner
200 x 130 x 40 mm
Vikt
520 g
ISBN
9780006387305

Gerald Durrell

The Authorised Biography

av Douglas Botting
Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-03-01
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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 hed dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation. 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. 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 peoples attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephantsHe was a pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour. His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.
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Douglas Bottings biography of GAVIN MAXWELL was hugely praised. His previous books reflect his interest in travel, exploration and wild places. He was an exploration film-maker for the BBCs World About Us and became a full-time writer with the publication of his highly praised biography of the German explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt and the Cosmos.

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