{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-animals-the-corfu-trilogy-1-von-gerald-durrell","title":"My Family and Other Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme,\u003ci\u003e Two in the Bush\u003c\/i\u003e¿ which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewas made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book,\u003ci\u003e The Overloaded Ark\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including\u003ci\u003e My Family and Other Animals\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Bafut Beagles\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Encounters with Animals\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Drunken Forest\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e A Zoo in My Luggage\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Whispering Land\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Menagerie Manor\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Amateur Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Aye-Aye and I\u003c\/i\u003e. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780241981696\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Corfu Trilogy 1\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780241981696","offer_id":39414422569053,"sku":"9780241981696","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/92667666-a54b-49c1-ac9a-63517618f7cb.jpg?v=1782187582","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/my-family-and-other-animals-the-corfu-trilogy-1-von-gerald-durrell","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}