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Myself and Other Animals

By: Gerald Durrell
Narrated by: Julian Wadham, Anne Dover
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword written by HRH Princess Anne.


Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell’s work and archives. The result is an extraordinary journey through Durrell’s life in his own words, edited and introduced by his widow Lee Durrell.

Drawing on a memoir that Durrell started writing before he became too ill to continue it, and an unfinished book from a trip to Australia in 1969 to the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory and Queensland, here is the unvarnished story of Durrell’s life, from touching family tributes to golden bats and pink pigeons.

Moving from India to England and then to the always sun-lit Corfu, told with dry wit and insight into our fellow animals, here is the vivid finale of one of Britain’s most beloved conservationists and prose stylists.

‘Gerald Durrell was magic’ SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

‘One of the finest and most lyrical nature writers in English’
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©2024 Gerald Durrell (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Animals Biological Sciences Environment Environmentalists & Naturalists Outdoors & Nature Professionals & Academics Science

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Brought back memories of reading Gerald's books as a young teenager. He was an inspiration.
lovely listen and interesting too.

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brilliant from start to finish and funny with it especially the antics of the animals. The narrators were very good.

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