{"product_id":"9780007381227_gerald-durrell-the-authorised-biography-text-only","title":"Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography (Text Only)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition does not include illustrations.\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\u003eGerald 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\u003eAbove 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\u003eHis brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas Botting","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275081859221,"sku":"9780007381227","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007381227.jpg?v=1776889777","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007381227_gerald-durrell-the-authorised-biography-text-only","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}