David Attenborough, ‘The Joys and Delights of Collecting’, World Books Bulletin, February 1956
Evelyn D. Bangay in Poetry Review, January 1962
Alan Devoe, ‘Fun with the Fon’, Saturday Review of Literature, 8 January 1955
Gerald Durrell’s archive of fan mail, Jersey Zoo
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, cue sheets for Royal Festival Hall lecture, 13 November 1954
Gerald Durrell, The Drunken Forest
Gerald Durrell, letters to Lawrence Durrell, 20 October and 14 December 1954 (SIU)
Gerald Durrell, ‘Zoo Article’ (Jersey Zoo Archives)
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
Lawrence Durrell (ed. Alan Thomas), Spirit of Place
Patrick Leigh Fermor, letter to the author, 23 October 1996
Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography
Rubi M. Rubens, ‘Jacqueline y Gerald – dos nombres para una aventura’, El Hogar, Buenos Aires, December 1953
W.J. Weatherby, ‘The Durrell Brothers’, Guardian, 6 May 1961
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Book of the Idyll
Gerald Durrell, ‘Autobiographical Fragments’ (unpublished typescript, Jersey Archives)
Gerald Durrell, ‘A Bookman’s Jottings’, Bookman, October 1956
Gerald Durrell, ‘Explanation re Corfu Book’ (undated typescript filed with preliminary notes for My Family and Other Animals)
Gerald Durrell, interview with Michael Armstrong, February 1980
Gerald Durrell, taped conversation with John Burton, n.d.
Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell, letter to the author, September 1997
Lawrence Durrell, ‘Animal Collector’s Family Rampage’, Books and Bookmen, November 1956
Lawrence Durrell (ed. Alan Thomas), Spirit of Place
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
David Hughes, interview with the author, October 1995
Ian MacNiven and Harry T. Moore (eds), Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence
Jane Lagoudis Pinchin, ‘Sideways out of the House: Lawrence and Gerald Durrell’, in Blood Brothers: Siblings as Writers (ed. Norman Kiele)
W.J. Weatherby, ‘The Durrell Brothers’, Guardian, 6 May 1961
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Man and Nature
John Barber, ‘Bring em Back Alive Golding is Home Again’, Bristol Evening Post, 15 July 1957
Gordon Bowker, Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
C.G. Bramwell, Conservator of Forests, letter to Forest Officer, Mamfe, 28 January 1957
Commissioner of the Cameroons, Extract of Touring Notes – Mamfe Division, 3 May 1957
Gerald Durrell, ‘Bournemouth Zoo-Park’ (typescript, 1956)
Gerald Durrell, draft article for Reveille magazine (typescript, 3 October 1957)
Gerald Durrell-Ivan Sanderson correspondence 1956/57 (Gerald Durrell Archives, Jersey Zoo)
Gerald Durrell, ‘Man and Nature’ (typed radio script, retitled The Balance of Nature, BBC German Service 29 August 1956)
Gerald Durrell, ‘My Family did Really Exist’, World Books Bulletin, 1957
Gerald Durrell, ‘The Third Cameroon Expedition’, in letter to Bob Morse, Life magazine, 9 November 1956
Gerald Durrell, A Zoo in my Luggage
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Financial Times, 10 December 1956
Fon of Bafut, letter to Gerald Durrell, 25 January 1957 (original in JWPT archives, Jersey)
Peter Green, ‘Five Gloriously Eccentric Years’ (Reprint Society Broadsheet)
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
Melville’s Choice (BBC Talks Department script, 2 December 1956)
Jane Lagoudis Pinchin, ‘Sideways out of the House: Lawrence and Gerald Durrell’, in Blood Brothers: Siblings as Writers (ed. Norman Kiele)
Sunday Express, 2 December 1956
Kenneth Young, ‘A Boyhood in Paradise’, Daily Telegraph, 12 October 1956
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ‘A Wonderful Place for a Zoo’
Jessie Forsyth Andrews, ‘The Whole Creation – Or Only Part? Animals, Man and God’, Christian World, 15 May 1958
Sir David Attenborough, ‘Recollections of Gerald Durrell’, BBC Wildlife Magazine, March 1995
Bournemouth Echo, July 1957, August 1958
David Clayton, ‘Cholmondeley Steals the Show from Mr Durrell’, Evening Standard, 9 April 1958
Gerald Durrell, Argentina 1959 papers (JWPT archives, Jersey)
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, Broadcast File 1958 (JWPT archives, Jersey)
Gerald Durrell, Documents Relating to Proposed Zoo at Upton House, Poole, 9 October and 19 November 1957 (JWPT archives, Jersey)
Gerald Durrell, draft obituary of Sir Peter Scott, 2 July 1990
Gerald Durrell, Encounters with Animals
Gerald Durrell, ‘How to Live with a Chimp, Everybody’s, 31 May 1958
Gerald Durrell, letter to BBC Television Bristol, 12 August 1958
Gerald Durrell, letter to Mr J. Hiller, Town Hall, Poole, 9 October 1957
Gerald Durrell, ‘Life with Chumley No. 3’ (typescript, 19 October 1958)
Gerald Durrell, Menagerie Manor
Gerald Durrell in ‘Mr Cholmondeley Came to Tea’, Exhibition News, W.H. Smith Ltd, 14 August 1957
Gerald Durrell, ‘My Life with a Chimp’, Everybody’s, 6 December 1958
Gerald Durrell, South America 1959 file (JWPT archives, Jersey)
Gerald Durrell, The Whispering Land
Gerald Durrell, ‘The Wild Animal Preservation Trust – Preliminary Report’ (Bournemouth, 1958)
Gerald Durrell, A Zoo in my Luggage
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 15 September 1997
Lawrence Durrell, letter to Henry Miller, 18 December 1957
Lawrence Durrell, letter to Henry Miller, February 1958
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
David Hughes, interview with the author, October 1995
Elspeth Huxley, Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist
Ian MacNiven and Harry T. Moore (eds), Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence
Dr Alan Ogden, letter to the author, 18 October 1995
Maurice Richardson, ‘Animals Again’, Observer, 20 April 1958
Tom Salmon, letter to the author, 4 December 1996
Peter Scott, letter to Gerald Durrell, 9 September 1958 (Jersey Archives)
Times Literary Supplement, autumn 1958
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Zoo is Born
Michael Armstrong, interview with the author, November 96
Michael Armstrong, Jersey Zoo Diary 1959
Sir David Attenborough, ‘Recollections of Gerald Durrell’, BBC Wildlife Magazine, March 1995
Douglas Botting, ‘Bafut Beagles Hunt Again’, Daily Telegraph, 28 October 1960
Gerald Breeze to the author, February 1998
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, ‘I Live in Jersey’, Homes and Gardens, written 1 October 1960
Gerald Durrell, ‘I Love Having my Own Zoo’, Weekend Magazine, Canada, Vol.11, N0.44, 1961
Gerald Durrell, ‘Island Zoo’, Atlantic Monthly, August 1961
Gerald Durrell, Jersey Zoo Log, 1959/60
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, November 1995
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 15 September 1997
Lord Jersey, letter to the author, 29 November 1996
Jeremy Mallinson and others in group discussion with the author at Jersey Zoo, November 1996
Leslie Norton, interview with
the author, October 1997
Dr Alan Ogden, letter to the author, November 1995
Kenneth Smith, ‘Jersey Zoological Park’ (Jersey, March 1959)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ‘We’re All Going to be Devoured’
Maria Craipeau and Jean Lattes, Une Arche sans Tempêtes
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, ‘Christmas at the Zoo’ Animals magazine, 1963
Gerald Durrell, ‘Dead as a Dodo’, Jersey magazine, c.1967
Gerald Durrell, ‘I Love Having my Own Zoo’ Weekend Magazine, Canada, Vol.11, N0.44, 1961
Gerald Durrell, ‘Island Zoo’, Atlantic Monthly, August 1961
Gerald Durrell, letter to Lawrence Durrell, c. October 1960 (Durrell Archives, Manuscript Department, British Library)
Gerald Durrell, letter to Jersey Evening Post, n.d.
Gerald Durrell, ‘Summer in Corfu’, Punch, 17 May 1961
Gerald Durrell, Two in the Bush
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, November 1995
Jacquie Durrell, letter to the author, 1 October 1995
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 24 January 1998
Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography
David Hughes, ‘Gerald Durrell and Friends’, Harper’s Bazaar, March 1962
Christopher Parsons, address at memorial celebration, Natural History Museum, June 1995
Christopher Parsons, True to Nature
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Durrell’s Ark
Maria Craipeau and Jean Lattes, Une Arche sans Tempêtes
Margaret Duncan (Durrell) in David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
Margaret Duncan (Durrell) to the author, January 1998
Gerald Durrell, Catch me a Colobus
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, draft obituary of Sir Peter Scott, 2 July 1990
Gerald Durrell, letter to J.F. Lipscomb, London Zoo, 20 June 1964
Gerald Durrell, letter to Alan and Ella Thomas, 1964 (Durrell Archives, Manuscript Department, British Library)
Gerald Durrell, The Stationary Ark
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, November 1995 Jacquie Durrell to the author, January and September 1997, January 1998 Louisa Durrell, letter to Lawrence and Claude Durrell, August 1963 (Durrell Archives, Manuscript Department, British Library)
Peter Grose, interview with the author, July 1996
John Hartley in group discussion with the author at Jersey Zoo, November 1996 John Hartley to the author, June 1998 Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography Jeremy Mallinson, interview with the author, November 1995 Jeremy Mallinson, Travels in Search of Endangered Species Christopher Parsons, A Bull Called Marius Christopher Parsons, True to Nature Catha Weller, interview with the author, November 1996
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Volcano Rabbits and the King of Corfu
BBC TV, The Garden of the Gods
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, Catch me a Colobus
Gerald Durrell, ‘Dead as a Dodo’, c.1967
Gerald Durrell, letter to Leslie Durrell, 9 October 1967
Gerald Durrell, letter to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 20 July 1968
Gerald Durrell, letter to Alan and Shirley Thomas, 5 October 1966
Gerald Durrell, letters to Alan Thomas (Durrell Archives, Manuscript Department, British Library)
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 24 January 1998
Doreen Evans, interview with the author, July 1996
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
JWPT Newsletter, August 1969
Lee Langley, ‘The Other Mr Durrell’, Guardian, 1 August 1970
Christopher Parsons, True to Nature
Christopher Parsons, interview with the author, July 1996
Peggy Peel, The Search for the Teporingo, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Melbourne, 1969
Marshall Pugh, ‘Have You Lost the Sense of Wonderment?’, Daily Mail, 23 February 1966
Peter Scott, letter to Gordon Bowker, 14 March 1997
CHAPTER TWENTY: Crack-Up
Gerald Durrell, ‘The Antique World’, National Magazine Co., 24 March 1972
Gerald Durrell, ‘Christmas with Corals’, House & Garden (USA), December 1971
Gerald Durrell, ‘Directive to Sir Giles and Lady Guthrie’ (typescript, n.d.)
Gerald Durrell in JWPT Newsletter, August 1969 and March 1970
Gerald Durrell, letter to Marie Aspioti, 7 May 1968
Gerald Durrell, letter to Melbourne Age, 3 June 1970
Gerald Durrell, letter to Alan Thomas, 6 February 1969
Gerald Durrell, letter to Alan and Ella Thomas, 27 May 1968
Gerald Durrell, memo to Sir Giles Guthrie, 19 June 1970
Gerald Durrell, typescript of article submitted to Melbourne Herald, 19 June 1970
Jacquie Durrell, Beasts in my Bed
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, October 1995
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 24 January 1998
Jacquie Durrell, quoted in Melbourne Age, 15 November 1969
Lawrence Durrell (ed. Alan Thomas), Spirit of Place
Peter Grose, interview with the author, July 1996
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Pulling Through
John Burton, obituary of Gerald Durrell, Guardian, 31 January 1995
Gerald Durrell, letters to Lady Saranne Calthorpe, 27 June and 19 July 1971
Gerald Durrell, letter to Mr J.D. Cody, Collins Publishers, Melbourne, 22 March 1971
Gerald Durrell, letters to Lawrence Durrell, 19 November and 2 December 1971 (Durrell Archives, Manuscript Department, British Library)
Gerald Durrell, letter to Sir Giles Guthrie, 16 July 1971
Gerald Durrell, letter to Lord Jersey, 16 April 1971
Gerald Durrell, letter to Miss D. McAlpin, 18 March 1971
Gerald Durrell, letter and film outline to Christopher Parsons, 23 November 1970
Gerald Durrell, letter to Mai Zetterling, 19 June 1971
Gerald Durrell, manuscript notes for proposed cookbook (Jersey, n.d.)
Gerald Durrell, quoted in David Cobham, ‘Animals are my Life’, script for proposed TV programme, November 1975
Jacquie Durrell, letter to Lawrence Durrell, 21 October 1970
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 23 January and 21 February 1998
Peter Grose, interview with the author, July 1996
Sir Giles Guthrie, letter to Gerald Durrell, 14 June 1971
Lady Rhona Guthrie, interview with the author, October 1996
David Hughes, Himself and Other Animals
JWPT Report, 21 September 1970, and ‘Memorandum’, 24 September 1970
Jean Mohr, ‘Durrell’s Zoo’, World Health (Lausanne), May 1968
Penny Nelson, ‘We Must Own our Place of Work if the Zoo is to Survive’, Jersey Evening Post, 12 February 1971
‘Gerald Durrell OBE’, Oryx (FFPS), vol. 29, 1995
Brian Park, in ‘Memoirs of Gerald Durrell by Friends and Colleagues’ (typescript, Jersey, 31 January 1995)
Christopher Parsons, True to Nature
Alan Thomas, letter to Gerald Durrell, 17 June 1970
Edward Whitley, ‘The Man who Preferred Animals to People’, Daily Mail, 31 January 1995
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Palace Revolution
HRH Princess Anne, in Tribute to Gerald Durrell, BBC South-West TV, 7 February 1995
Jean-Michel Damiani, letter to the author, 2 April 1972
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, ‘Forward’, in R.W. Martin (ed.), Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity
Gerald Durrell, letters to Lawrence Durrell, December 1971
Gerald Durrell, letter to Sir William Haley, Jersey, 16 December 1972
Gerald Durrell, letter to Lord Jersey, 13 November 1972
Gerald Durrell, letter to B.K. Schramm, 14 December 1972
Gerald Durrell, letter to Alan Thomas, 31 May 1972
Gerald Durrell, in JWPT Newsletter, August 1972
Gerald Durrell, ‘Memo to Trustees’ Investigation Committee’, 3 October 1972
Gerald Durrell, ‘Progress Report 1963–72’ (JWPT, c. January 1973)
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, October 1995
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 25 January 1998
Peter Grose, interview with the author, July 1996
Lady Rhona Guthrie, interview with the author, October 1996
Lord Jersey, letter to the author, 29 November 1996
Lord Jersey, letter to Lady Guthrie, 2 July 1991
‘New Trustees Named by Jersey Wildlife Trust’, Jersey Evening Post, 1 February 1973
Dr R.D. Martin, ‘Gerald Durrell 1925–1995’, Biodiversity and Conservation, no. 4, 1995
Dr R.D. Martin, interview with the author, November 1997
‘Memorandum from the President of the Council of the JWPT’, September 1971
Peggy Caird Peel, International Conference on Endangered Species, BBC External Services, 5 May 1972
Dr Reed, Director of National Zoological Park, Washington, quoted in JWPT memo ‘Policy to be Stressed at the Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, 1971’
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Gerald in America
David Cobham to the author, 2.9 January and 16 February 1998
Fred Coleman, ‘Zoo Dedicated to Animal Preservation’, Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, 30 January 1972
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary
Gerald Durrell, quoted in David Cobham, ‘Animals are my Life’, script for proposed TV programme, November 1975
Gerald Durrell, The Stationary Ark (commentary typescript)
Jacquie Durrell, interview with the author, October 1995
Jacquie Durrell to the author, 23 January and 3 February 1998
David Hughes, interview with the author, October 1995
Thomas E. Lovejoy, ‘Recollections of Gerald Durrell, Dodo, no. 31, 1995
Jeremy Lucas, ‘Durrell and the Dodo’ (unpublished ms, 1987)
Peter Olney, interview with the author, July 1996
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: ‘Two Very Lost People’
Isaiah Berlin, ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’, in Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly eds), Russian Thinkers
David Cobham to the author, January 1997 and February 1998
Margaret Duncan (Durrell) to the author, December 1997
Gerald Durrell, The Ark’s Anniversary Gerald Durrell, in JWPT Newsletter, no. 24, March 1975