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...
評分每个人童年都有很多的梦想,也拥有属于自己的一种颜色,但生活在大都市的我们很难有那么一种体验,金黄色的阳光,暖暖的海滩,四处奔跑的小动物,可以蹲在树底下呆呆的透过晃动的树叶观察阳光的颜色,也可以在草丛中潜伏着等待着一只昆虫的出现,一切都显得那么的亲切自然,完...
評分我的内心是幽暗的,我的内心是浮躁的,我的内心因为黑暗而变得复杂混淆,就像夜里总会有许多动物跑出来,你看不真,但是它们的一举一动,鸣叫嘶吼低语清唱都会让你神经质地感到害怕恐惧。 但白天来临,内心的黑暗依旧无法得到救赎。 阳光有时候给了你一点点麻痹,让你觉得自己...
評分英劇細節拍得太少瞭,書本正好補充下~ 像Mrs Durrell這樣的媽媽真的太棒瞭~
评分這樣的生活!除瞭迷人的大小動植物、景色描寫外,每次搬傢的 conversation 章節也非常有趣。“兒戲”的挪窩理由,讓你覺得啊生活真的可以,有無數種可能。
评分原文非常流暢 用詞太美瞭 讀起來又輕鬆又快樂
评分喜歡 Larry
评分這樣的生活!除瞭迷人的大小動植物、景色描寫外,每次搬傢的 conversation 章節也非常有趣。“兒戲”的挪窩理由,讓你覺得啊生活真的可以,有無數種可能。
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