Myself and Other Animals

A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne. Gerald Durrell was magic SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH A wise, genial and world-encompassing book SUNDAY TIMES Fills important gaps in the biographical narrative . . . Truly, there is magic here GUARDIAN Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell s work and archives.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.'Funny and readable and hugely charming' i One of the finest and most lyrical nature writers in English OBSERVER'A moving tribute to Gerald's endeavours and achievements as a conservationist' SPECTATOR