Gerald Durrell
Subtitle: The Authorized Biography
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: October 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780786707966
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography: general; Education; Literature: History & Criticism; Educators; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography
First sentence: Gerald Malcolm Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, Bihar Province, India, on 7 January 1925, the fourth surviving child of Louisa Florence Durrell (nee Dixie), aged thirty-eight, and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, forty, a civil engineer.