Best Selling Books by Gerald Durrell

Includes anecdotes about zoo lions, tigers, polar bears, gnus, bears, giraffes, and camels.

Great-Uncle Lancelot''s latest invention, a time machine, has been stolen by a villain and his henchman. The evil pair have travelled back in time to the Age of the Dinosaurs to capture the beasts. Emma, Ivan and Conrad travel back through time with Lancelot to save the dinosaurs.

Great-Uncle Lancelot, redoubtable explorer and enthusiastic naturalist, takes his niece and twin nephews on an extraordinary journey around the world, introducing them to a wide variety of animals.

Gerald, a boy growing up on the Greek island of Corfu, rescues a land tortoise from the sea and introduces it into the company of the frogs, toads, snakes, crabs, octopuses, and other animal friends he has cultivated.

Over millions of years the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, developed a unique flora and fauna, but when man arrived and introduced the dog, rat, pig and monkey, he wreaked havoc on the delicate ecosystem. In co-operation with the Mauritian Government, Gerald Durrell and his team visited the island to help rescue some of the creatures from almost certain extinction. At his Jersey sanctuary, these animals could live and breed in safety, and their progeny were reintroduced to their natural home.