Myself and Other Animals

A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth.'Gerald Durrell was magic' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ¿ 'One of the finest and most lyrical nature writers in English' OBSERVERMyself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell's work and archives. This creates 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 got 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.Journeying from India to England and then to the always sun-lit Corfu, never told with such clarity, dry wit and insight into our fellow animals, here is the vivid finale of one of Britain's most beloved conservationists and prose stylists.