Myself & Other Animals

Gerald Durrell & Lee Durrell. Foreword by HRH Princess Anne

A final 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.

Myself & Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell's work and archives.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.

"Sparkling descriptions of animal behaviour are the beating heart of Durrell's accounts of trips to Cameroon, Guyana, New Zealand, Mauritius, Madagascar and elsewhere [...] Durrell's concern for species extinction thrums throughout Myself & Other Animals"

 - Ella Creamer, Guardian

354 pages.

Hardback £20.00 £17.99