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Publisher's summary
Gerald Durrell's last book, The Aye-Aye and I, records his final animal-collecting expedition, a trip to Madagascar in 1990, and his efforts to save the elusive and mythical lemuroid known as the Aye-Aye. Prompted by the country's radical deforestation and slash-and-burn agriculture, Durrell, his wife, and their team of zoologists embark on a mission to capture and conserve the species - distinguished by its "giant, chisel-like teeth", "round, hypnotic eyes", and large "spoon-like ears".
During the course of their journey, they encounter golden river snakes, flat-tailed tortoises, the gentle lemurs of Lac Alaotra, and the Malagasy chameleons. Durrell's exuberant descriptions of the island, its people, and ecology are among his best.
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- Marsha
- 03-04-22
Delightful
Of course! The superb vocabulary and astounding jocular spirit with which each of Gerald Durrell’s books is written is profoundly evident in this book. His determination in saving the world it’s animal kingdom is so appreciated. His trip to Madagascar is eye-opening and ear-appreciated. The delivery is astounding. Do read for appreciation of word and animal recovery ❤️🩹
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- Mreen
- 05-05-20
A Wonderful narative, beautifully read. Thankyou
It was great learning about the capture and care of these
Ovely creatures... all of them. I wished I could have been there to have helped in some way. Thankyou to all.
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- desre
- 03-25-20
Entertaining and funny
An interesting book that opens a land to the listener. The author is always entertaining and helps the listener to visualize this unique island as well as the animal in question, the Aye Aye.
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- Beth T.
- 01-13-23
WHAT A ENTERTAINING & EDUCATIONAL BOOK
I loved every minute of this educating, funny and thought provoking book. This is a book that should be required reading in schools all over the world. What a huge difference it would make for future generation.
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- Dennis
- 04-22-19
love this series of books!
I loved the narrator and the stories are so much fun! I especially loved the duck story. it really made me laugh!
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- Jay Aitch
- 10-25-21
Brilliant and evocative.
Completely engaging from the start. I only wish he had written more books in his lifetime.
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- Mrs. Janice Cowpersmith
- 10-24-20
pure bliss for your ears
with the most beautiful and hilarious descriptions that leave wonderful pictures in your mind. this book is a welcome relief from today's trouble
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- LC
- 10-03-20
Nice, but loses charm compared to earlier books
I enjoyed hearing about this trip to Madagascar, and learning about Madagascar itself.
It was a nice account of his trip but with less charm and magic than his earlier books.
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- hfffoman
- 04-10-20
Probably the best book I have ever sent back.
Gerald Durrell was a good bloke. A great bloke. I would love to write a 5 star review of what a wonderful bloke he was. Read his wikipedia page and you will be blown away with admiration. Unfortunately the book is less interesting than the wikipedia page and, much as I felt it was a good book, I got bored half way through and put it away. And that is despite the narration by Rupert Degas, surely the absolute number 1 of Audible readers. This is probably the best book I have ever sent back.
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- Amelia Woodruff
- 01-20-20
Utterly enchanting
Much his older brother Lawrence Durrell (one of the great literary geniuses), Gerald Durrell is an excellent writer. His descriptions of the natural world and Madagascar are beautiful and this was a true pleasure to listen to. The performance and narration are vert well suited to the book as well.
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- Janet Jones
- 11-23-19
Brilliant!
Yet another brilliant book. I love Gerard Durrell's books I was in hysterics at times. The narrator wasn't bad but not brilliant.
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- Tishie de la Harpe
- 05-09-19
Brilliant and amusing
This is the greatest book, so very Amish g I laughed out allowed when listening with tears rolling down my face. It is beautifully naratored. It is also the most amazing story can't wait to read another one,
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- Josh
- 06-05-19
Aye-Aye Sir!
The author might be deceased, but his story & the animals he's helped lives on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- By Dennis on 02-28-19
By: Gerald Durrell
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Stories from a Corfu Childhood
- A Selection of His Own Stories Written and Read by Gerald Durrell
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Gerald Durrell
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story5 out of 5 stars 111
These five stories, written and read by Gerald Durrell himself, are taken from his books Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Fillets of Plaice. They were recorded on Jersey in 1985 and are used by kind permission of the Estate of Gerald Durrell.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All stories from the second book but one
- By Sarah. on 05-21-18
By: Gerald Durrell
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The Whispering Land
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story5 out of 5 stars 59
Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining!
- By Victoria on 06-19-20
By: Gerald Durrell
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Whatever Happened to Margo?
- By: Margaret Durrell, Gerald Durrell - foreword
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan - preface
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- By Sarah on 11-14-23
By: Margaret Durrell, and others
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it, but please mark as Abridged!
- By Meredith King on 09-14-21
By: Gerald Durrell
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Beasts in My Belfry
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Beasts in My Belfry is the wonderfully funny memoir about Gerald Durrell's time at Whipsnade Zoo and his experiences as a young zookeeper. Following the Second World War, Durrell joined Whipsnade Zoo as a junior keeper - an opportunity that fulfilled a lifelong dream. Thanks to Rupert Degas's brilliant voicing, which captures all of Durrell's charm and wit, the listener can enjoy being taken behind the scenes of one of the world's very first zoos. This is a delightful portrait of the animals who lived there and those who looked after them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All his books are awesome
- By SJ on 09-17-21
By: Gerald Durrell
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A Zoo in My Luggage
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story5 out of 5 stars 68
A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina, who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel, who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chumly, who greets him with an outstretched hand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- By Dennis on 02-28-19
By: Gerald Durrell
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Stories from a Corfu Childhood
- A Selection of His Own Stories Written and Read by Gerald Durrell
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Gerald Durrell
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story5 out of 5 stars 111
These five stories, written and read by Gerald Durrell himself, are taken from his books Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Fillets of Plaice. They were recorded on Jersey in 1985 and are used by kind permission of the Estate of Gerald Durrell.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All stories from the second book but one
- By Sarah. on 05-21-18
By: Gerald Durrell
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The Whispering Land
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story5 out of 5 stars 59
Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining!
- By Victoria on 06-19-20
By: Gerald Durrell
-
Whatever Happened to Margo?
- By: Margaret Durrell, Gerald Durrell - foreword
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan - preface
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- By Sarah on 11-14-23
By: Margaret Durrell, and others
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 221
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it, but please mark as Abridged!
- By Meredith King on 09-14-21
By: Gerald Durrell
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 221
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it, but please mark as Abridged!
- By Meredith King on 09-14-21
By: Gerald Durrell
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Ring of Bright Water
- By: Gavin Maxwell
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
'Ring of Bright Water' represents Gavin Maxwell's account of his life at Camusfearna, a remote cottage in the western Highlands, and in particular the two otters, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant and much-loved companions.