Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.
On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone. He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist. In 1958 Gerald Durrell realised a lifelong dream when he set up the Jersey Zoological Park, followed a few years later by the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.
Durell was married twice; Jacquie Durrell (1951-1979), Lee Durrell (1979-1995).
Gerald Durrell's style is exuberant, passionate and acutely observed. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.
在等女儿下课的闲隙中很偶然的拿起这本书,没想到刚刚打开书页就被他深深吸引住了。一个十岁的小男孩不用上学,天天在阳光明媚的希腊小岛上晃悠,山坡上捉捉虫,海岸边打打滚,不用劳累于案牍,伤神于成绩,自由自在滴接受大自然的教育。。。。。。 作者说:“科孚...
评分 评分從圖書館借來此書企鵝1959年版,翻開扉頁發現有簽名和藏書票。 結合藏書票很容易辨認,簽名者是Leslie G. Kilborn, 中文名啟真道。網絡搜索可知啟氏為加拿大人,生於四川,多倫多大學醫學博士,曾於華西協和大學教授生理學、藥理學及英語。其父啟爾德為華西協和大學創辦人之一...
评分这套书可说是老少咸宜,从九岁到九十九岁的读者都会喜爱。幽默的叙述方式,轻松、浅显的文字背后,一股单纯而直接的渲染力,不时透露着深厚地动物保育的涵养和情感。
评分看完英剧《德雷尔一家》,找来杰拉尔德·德雷尔的原著《希腊三部曲》来看。 第一部是《追逐阳光之岛》,其实2005年的电影版《我的家人和其他动物》就是根据这本书改编的,《追逐阳光之岛》的英文原名就是《My Family and Other Animals》。 杰拉尔德·德雷尔是德雷尔一家中最小...
令人开心。
评分多年前读过一个中文版,现在哪里都找不到了。很特别很动人的书。作者是个自然学家,动物园主,特别爱动物的人,从书名就看得出来。他的文笔特别幽默,因为下意识里从动物的角度看待世界,于是行文总是出人意料。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell
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