Gerald Durrell is truly a unique person. Without formal training in zoology, a “catcher of wild animals,” he became the world’s most popular nature writer. It was him, as a child, who said his first word… “zoo.” It was him, after becoming director of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, who saved an enormous number of animal species. It was him who created around thirty bestsellers about the life of animals in different countries. This edition includes Durrell’s most popular book, which in England has gone through more than thirty editions—“My Family and Other Animals.”