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* CreatorsOddball: His books are usually comedic stories about animals and eccentric people. However, he also wrote "The Entrance", a straightforward, non-comedic GothicHorror story, as well as ''Literature/TheTalkingParcel'', a fantasy book for children.
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* GenreAdultery: His books are usually comedic stories about animals and eccentric people. However, he also wrote "The Entrance", a straightforward, non-comedic GothicHorror story, as well as ''Literature/TheTalkingParcel'', a fantasy book for children.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Almost all people in his books are portrayed as eccentric.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Almost all people in his books are portrayed as quirky and eccentric.
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* UnreliableNarrator: His books may be autobiographical, but many details, incidents and scenarios depart from an objective account.
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* UnreliableNarrator: His books may be autobiographical, but many details, incidents and scenarios depart from an objective account.account, mostly [[RuleOfFunny for the sake of comedy]].
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I'm pretty sure it was a gull, there are no albatrosses in Greece
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* PetBabyWildAnimal: He kept a lot of them as a child, including, for example, an albatross, a scorpion, and an owl (however, his family [[EveryoneHasStandards drew the line at a bear]]).
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* PetBabyWildAnimal: He kept a lot of them as a child, including, for example, an albatross, large gull, a scorpion, and an owl (however, his family [[EveryoneHasStandards drew the line at a bear]]).
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour: In ''The Drunken Forest'', an armadillo is brought to the Durrells' house in Paraguay early in the morning, and their interpreter Rafael complains he [[NotInMyContract hasn't promised to act as interpreter at 5 a.m.]]
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* PetBabyWildAnimal: He kept a lot of them as a child.
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* PetBabyWildAnimal: He kept a lot of them as a child.child, including, for example, an albatross, a scorpion, and an owl (however, his family [[EveryoneHasStandards drew the line at a bear]]).
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[[index]]
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* ''Literature/TheGardenOfTheGods'': part 3 of the "Corfu Trilogy".
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* ''Literature/TheGardenOfTheGods'': part 3 of the "Corfu Trilogy".[[/index]]
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* ''Literature/DurrellInRussia'': expedition to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Russia]].
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* ''Literature/DurrellInRussia'': expedition to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Russia]].[[index]]
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[[/index]]
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* ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney'': story of three children travelling around the world with their eccentric uncle.
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* ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney'': story of three children travelling around the world with their eccentric uncle.uncle, using TranslatorMicrobes to talk to animals.
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* ''Literature/MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals'': part 1. of the "Corfu Trilogy", retelling his childhood adventures on the island of Corfu.
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* ''Literature/MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals'': part 1. 1 of the "Corfu Trilogy", retelling his childhood adventures on the island of Corfu.
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* ''Literature/BirdsBeastsAndRelatives'': part 2. of the "Corfu Trilogy".
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* ''Literature/BirdsBeastsAndRelatives'': part 2. 2 of the "Corfu Trilogy".
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* ''Literature/TheGardenOfGods'': part 3. of the "Corfu Trilogy".
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* ''Literature/TheGardenOfGods'': ''Literature/TheGardenOfTheGods'': part 3. 3 of the "Corfu Trilogy".
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'''YMMV:'''
* FairForItsDay: His accounts of foreign expeditions are laced with a rose-tinted view of the British Empire and a condescending attitude to non-white locals.
* FairForItsDay: His accounts of foreign expeditions are laced with a rose-tinted view of the British Empire and a condescending attitude to non-white locals.
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* FairForItsDay: His accounts of foreign expeditions are laced with a rose-tinted view of the British Empire and a condescending attitude to non-white locals.
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[[caption-width-right:200:He's the one on the right.]]
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Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was an English naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. Obsessed with animals, he devoted his life to the conservation of endangered species, and founded the Jersey Zoo and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (now called Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in his honour).
He was the author of many books, mostly autobiographical works about his childhood in Corfu and his expeditions to various places in the world, as well as some humourous novels and children's books. His recurring themes are animals with loveable personalities, eccentric and unusual people, and the fragility of nature. He was also the presenter of a handful of radio and television programmes.
He was the author of many books, mostly autobiographical works about his childhood in Corfu and his expeditions to various places in the world, as well as some humourous novels and children's books. His recurring themes are animals with loveable personalities, eccentric and unusual people, and the fragility of nature. He was also the presenter of a handful of radio and television programmes.
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Gerald Malcolm "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was an English naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. Obsessed with animals, he devoted his life to the conservation of endangered species, and founded the Jersey Zoo and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (now called Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in his honour).
He Durrell was the author of many books, mostly autobiographical works about his childhood in Corfu and his expeditions to various places in the world, as well as some humourous novels and children's books. His recurring themes are animals with loveable personalities, eccentric and unusual people, and the fragility of nature. He was also the presenter of a handful of radio and television programmes.
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'''Tropes associated with him:'''
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