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Corfu Trilogy
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*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells*Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things' New York Times

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Die aberwitzige Reise eines betrunkenen Elefanten

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Die aberwitzige Reise eines betrunkenen Elefanten
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Hier kommt Rosy ... Adrian Rockwhistle langweilt sich frchterlich. Wenn er von seinem unspektakulren Angestellten-Job nach Hause kommt, wartet dort nur seine exzentrische Vermieterin auf ihn. Das ndert sich schlagartig, als berraschend die Erbschaft eines verstorbenen Onkels vor seiner Tr abgeladen wird: Rosy, eine liebenswerte Elefantendame mit unstillbarem Durst nach allem Hochprozentigen. Adrian ist sprachlos. Unmglich, dass er Rosy behlt! Nein, das graue Ungetm muss weg. Whrend Rosy jede Flasche leert, die ihr unter den Rssel kommt, hat Adrian einen Geistesblitz: Er knnte sie an einen Zirkus verschenken, weit weg an der Kste. Also bricht er mit Rosy im Schlepptau auf. Gemeinsam schlagen sie eine Schneise der Verwstung durch das sonst so friedliche Sdengland. Erst als die Elefantendame in Gefahr gert, merkt Adrian, dass sie ihm weit mehr ans Herz gewachsen ist, als er fr mglich gehalten htte Ein groer Spa!" New York Times

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Meine Familie und andere Tiere
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Â»Auf Korfu zu leben, war ein bisschen so, als wÃ¿re man in eine dieser opulenten, komischen Opern geraten.Â« Man schreibt das Jahr 1935. Die Durrells sind das britische Klima leid. Was also lÃ¿ge nÃ¿her, als auszuwandern? So kehrt der zehnjÃ¿hrige Gerry gemeinsam mit seinen drei Geschwistern und seiner Mutter Louisa England den RÃ¼cken ? und betritt eine zauberhafte Welt, die fÃ¼r die ganze Familie prÃ¿gend sein wird: die griechische Insel Korfu.In seinen literarischen Erinnerungen erzÃ¿hlt Gerald Durrell, wie sich sein Blick fÃ¼r die Natur Ã¶ffnete. Und macht dabei so geistreiche wie witzige Beobachtungen Ã¼ber Mensch und Tier. Ã¿ber die eigensinnigen Einheimischen, die herrlichen Marotten seiner Familie und die tierischen GÃ¿ste in ihrem Haus.

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My Family and Other Animals
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Moya sem'ya i drugie zveri" - ehto "kniga, zavorazhivayushchaya v bukval'nom smysle slova" (Sunday Times) i "samaya voskhititel'naya idilliya, kakuyu tol'ko mozhno voobrazit'" (The New Yorker). S neizmennoj lyubov'yu, bezuprechnoj tochnost'yu i nepodrazhaemym yumorom Darrell rasskazyvaet o pyatiletnem prebyvanii svoej sem'i (v tom chisle starshego brata Larri, to est' Lourensa Darrella - budushchego avtora znamenitogo "Aleksandrijskogo kvarteta") na grecheskom ostrove Korfu. I sam ehtot roman, i ego prodolzheniya razoshlis' po miru mnogomillionnymi tirazhami, stali nastol'nymi knigami uzhe u neskol'kih pokolenij chitatelej, a v Anglii dazhe voshli v shkol'nuyu programmu. "Trilogiya o Korfu" trizhdy perenosilas' na teleehkran, prichem poslednij raz - v 2016 godu, kogda britanskaya kompaniya ITV vypustila pervyj sezon seriala "Darrelly", odnim iz postanovshchikov kotorogo vystupil EHdvard Holl ("Abbatstvo Daunton", "Miss Marpl Agaty Kristi"). Roman publikuetsya v novom (i vpervye - v polnom) perevode, vypolnennom Sergeem Taskom, ch'i perevody Toma Vulfa i Dzhona Le Karre, Stivena Kinga i Pola Ostera, Iehna Mak'yuehna, Richarda Jejtsa i Frehnsisa Skotta Ficdzheral'da uzhe stali klassicheskimi.

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THE OVERLOADED ARK
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Â«Peregruzhennyj kovchegÂ» ? debyutnaya kniga anglijskogo pisatelya i naturalista Dzheral''da Darrella (1925?1995), kotoraya prinesla emu mirovuyu izvestnost''. V knige rasskazyvaetsya o shestimesyachnom puteshestvii 23-letnego avtora i ego kompan''ona-ornitologa po tropicheskim lesam Zapadnoj Afriki i ih zabavnyh, a poroj i dovol''no opasnyh priklyucheniyah v poiskah redkih zhivotnyh dlya anglijskih zooparkov. Uvlekatel''no, s lyubov''yu i nepodrazhaemym yumorom Darrell povestvuet o povedenii i povadkah ptic i zverej, obitayushchih v dzhunglyah, rasskazyvaet o hitrostyah ohoty za nimi i osobennostyah soderzhaniya malen''kih plennikov v nevole, zastavlyaet perezhivat'' za ih sud''bu i vmeste s avtorom voskhishchat''sya bogatstvom i raznoobraziem mira prirody.

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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
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"Pticy, zveri i moya sem'ya" - ehto prodolzhenie romana "Moya sem'ya i drugie zveri" - "knigi, zavorazhivayushchej v bukval'nom smysle slova" (Sunday Times) i "samoj voskhititel'noj idillii, kakuyu tol'ko mozhno voobrazit'" (The New Yorker). S neizmennoj lyubov'yu, bezuprechnoj tochnost'yu i nepodrazhaemym yumorom Darrell rasskazyvaet o pyatiletnem prebyvanii svoej sem'i (v tom chisle starshego brata Larri, to est' Lorensa Darrella - budushchego avtora znamenitogo "Aleksandrijskogo kvarteta") na grecheskom ostrove Korfu. EHti romany i sborniki razoshlis' po miru mnogomillionnymi tirazhami, stali nastol'nymi knigami uzhe u neskol'kih pokolenij chitatelej, a v Anglii dazhe voshli v shkol'nuyu programmu. "Trilogiya o Korfu" (s techeniem vremeni razrosshayasya do shesti knig) trizhdy perenosilas' na teleehkran, prichem poslednij raz - v 2016 godu, kogda britanskaya kompaniya ITV vypustila pervyj sezon seriala "Darrelly", odnim iz postanovshchikov kotorogo vystupil EHdvard Holl ("Abbatstvo Daunton", "Miss Marpl Agaty Kristi"). Roman publikuetsya v novom (i vpervye - v polnom) perevode, vypolnennom Sergeem Taskom, ch'i perevody Toma Vulfa i Dzhona Le Karre, Stivena Kinga i Pola Ostera, Iehna Mak'yuehna, Richarda Jejtsa i Frehnsisa Skotta Ficdzheral'da uzhe stali klassicheskimi.

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Three singles to Advenure
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V knige izvestnogo anglijskogo pisatelya i naturalista Dzheral'da Darrella (1925-1995) rasskazyvaetsya o puteshestvii v Britanskuyu Gvianu, kotoroe avtor predprinyal v 1950 godu v poiskah redkih zhivotnyh, obitayushchih v ehtom pervozdannom ugolke prirody, "strane vody polnoj burnyh rek, vodopadov i neprohodimyh tropicheskih lesov. O svoih vpechatleniyah ot YUzhnoj Ameriki, ee fantasticheskoj prirody, o vstrechah s novymi zhivotnymi, ih povadkah, zabavnom i poroj ochen' trogatel'nom obshchenii s nimi avtor pishet s neizmennoj lyubov'yu, bezuprechnoj tochnost'yu i nepodrazhaemym yumorom velikolepnogo rasskazchika.

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THE WHISPERING LAND
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Osen'yu 1958 goda Dzheral'd Darrell, k ehtomu vremeni ne menee izvestnyj pisatel', chem ego starshij brat Lourens, na korable "Zvezda Anglii otpravilsya v Argentinu. Kak vspominala ego zhena Dzheki, pobyvat' v Patagonii i svoimi glazami uvidet' mnogotysyachnye kolonii pingvinov, ponablyudat' za zhizn'yu kotikov i morskih slonov bylo davnishnej mechtoj Darrella. Krome togo, on sobiralsya privezti iz ehkspedicii kollekciyu yuzhnoamerikanskih zhivotnyh dlya svoego zooparka. Tapir Klavdij, malyshka Huanita, popugaj Blanko i dr. stali ne tol'ko obitatelyami Dzhersijskogo zooparka i vseobshchimi lyubimcami, no i proobrazami zabavnyh i beskonechno trogatel'nyh geroev novoj knigi Darrella ob Argentine "Zemlya shorohov. "Esli by zhivotnye, pticy i nasekomye mogli govorit', - pisal odin iz anglijskih kritikov, - oni by vruchili misteru Darrellu svoyu pervuyu Nobelevskuyu premiyu...

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The Donkey Rustlers
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Bezzabotnye kanikuly Amandy i Dehvida na solnechnom grecheskom ostrove Melissa omracheny bedoj, priklyuchivshejsya s ih zakadychnym drugom YAni. Posle smerti otca mal'chik neozhidanno dlya sebya okazalsya v dolzhnikah u kovarnogo mehra, kotoryj grozitsya otobrat' edinstvennoe dostoyanie YAni - krohotnyj domik s klochkom zemli, esli ne poluchit vsyu summu dolga v blizhajshee vremya. I togda druz'ya razrabatyvayut derzkij plan, kotoryj pomozhet YAni sohranit' svoe nasledstvo. Sonnyj ostrovok, zateryannyj v Ionicheskom more, davno ne perezhival stol' zagadochnyh, misticheskih i dazhe gosudarstvennyh potryasenij!Dzheral'd Darrell - pisatel', naturalist, znamenityj puteshestvennik i sozdatel' ne menee znamenitogo Dzhersijskogo zooparka i Fonda ohrany dikoj prirody - obladal nepovtorimym darom rasskazchika i potryasayushchim chuvstvom yumora. Ego knigi pomogli millionam detej i vzroslyh po vsemu svetu po-novomu vzglyanut' na mir zhivoj prirody i oshchutit' sebya neot"emlemoj ee chast'yu.

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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
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The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young Gerry continues to be captivated by the fascinating flora and fauna of their adopted home - much to the bemusement and upset of his long suffering siblings and mother.Whether it's lamp fishing by night or roving the countryside with his mentor Theodore, Gerry encounters intoxicated hedgehogs, tarantulas, dung beetles, water spiders and other animals, some of which become the family's very unwanted pets.'A wild and amusing chronicle' Daily Express'This book, an evocation of a budding naturalist's life as a boy on Corfu, will delight many readers, even those who can't stand spiders...' Evening Standard'Delightful, charming, funny' The Times

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Gerald Durrell
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This edition does not include illustrations.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 he'd 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 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.'His brother was the famous writer Lawrence Durrell.

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Garden of the Gods
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The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.

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My Family and Other Animals
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My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells. The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald DurrellEscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies.Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood.'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph'A bewitching book' Sunday Times

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A Zoo in My Luggage
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The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect ''plenty beef.'' Their difficulties began when they found themselves back at home, with Cholmondely the chimpanzee, Bug-Eye the bush-baby, and other founder members... and nowhere to put them

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Whispering Land
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'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.'Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America to collect more animals.Along windswept Patagonian shores and in Argentine tropical forests, he encounters a range of animals from penguins to elephant seals. But as always, he is drawn to those rare and interesting creatures which he hopes will thrive and breed in captivity . . .Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's The Whispering Land is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.

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Encounters with Animals
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'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others. Told with his trademark charm and humour, Gerald Durrell's Encounters with Animals is a uniquely entertaining exploration of some of the world's most striking landscapes and the wildlife it is home to.

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Aye-Aye and I
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'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes . . . it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life . . . one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet.'The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar is home to woodlice the size of golf balls, moths the size of Regency fans and the Aye-Aye, a type of lemur held by local superstion to be an omen of death. But when Gerald Durrell visited the island, the destruction of the forests meant that the Aye-Aye and many other creatures were in danger of extinction. Told with his unique sense of humour and inimitable charm, Gerald Durrell's The Aye Aye and I is the final adventure from one Britain's best loved conservationists.

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