My family and other animals 20165/12/2023 ![]() ![]() With Durrell, as with David Attenborough and other naturalists or zoo keepers like Graham Dangerfield and Desmond Morris, I could put a face and a powerful presence to the words because of their television programmes. But on dark winter nights in wet, cold, gloomy Acton in the early 1960s, there was nothing I wanted to do more than get to bed and have one of my parents read to me from Gerald Durrell’s books of his adventures with animals, his collecting expeditions to West Africa and South America and the story of the formation of his zoo in Jersey which I’d visited as a five-year old. ![]() They always want to stay up for just another few minutes, and a few more. This article also has been published in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.Ĭhildren hate going to bed. ![]()
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