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  • Gavin Maxwell

    A Life

    Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agent, shark fisherman, racing driver, poet and travel writer. His books on Iraq, Sicily and Morocco were acclaimed, but his fame as a writer rested on his bestselling story of the otters he raised and lived with in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland, Ring of Bright Water. Maxwell's private ... Leer más

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  • Gerald Durrell

    The Authorised Biography (Text Only)

    This edition does not include illustrations.The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he’d dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation.Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some thirty-seven ... Leer más

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  • Nazi Gold

    The Sensational Story of the World's Greatest Robbery – and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up

    In 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of the Reichsbank south for safekeeping. Vast trainloads of gold and currency were evacuated from the doomed capital of Hitler's 'Thousand-year Reich'.Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of that fabulous treasure - worth some 2,500,000,000 at the time of the original ... Leer más

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  • Hitler's Bastard

    Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia

    Of all the extraordinary individual accounts that have come out of the Second World War and its aftermath, few can compare with that of Eric Pleasants, a member of the 'bastard' British wing of Hitler's SS - the British Free Corps. In this compelling autobiography, Pleasants writes of the bizarre and traumatic years he spent as a prisoner of the twentieth century's most notorious dictators.A life ... Leer más

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  • Three Singles to Adventure

    Travel to South America to search for endangered species with the author of The Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV show The Durrells in Corfu .In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the English Channel.On his journey, Durrell experienced all ... Leer más

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  • Whatever Happened to Margo?

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Menagerie Manor

    Series Libro 3 - The Zoo Memoirs
    The beloved naturist and author of My Family and Other Animals shares the pleasures and pitfalls of opening a zoo on the English Channel Island of Jersey.Spurred by his passion for animals and a lifelong dream, in the spring of 1959 Gerald Durrell opened the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park—on the grounds of an old manor house. The menagerie provided a safe habitat for rare and ... Leer más

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  • The Durrells of Corfu

    de Michael Haag ...
    The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the ... Leer más

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  • The Final Plan

    The Final Plan is based on historical figures and actual events that occurred at the end of World War II. Hitler’s girl friend, Eva Braun, is pregnant. Positive that she will bear him a son, the Fuhrer conceives a daring scheme for her to escape to Argentina.Forty seven years later, Jake Brooks, an Israeli intelligence agent, is drawn into a murder in London and the Nazi plot begins to unfold. ... Leer más

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  • The Great Escape

    A Canadian Story

    de Ted Barris ...
    On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape," an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs working with extraordinary co-ordination, intelligence, and daring. ... Leer más

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  • Fauna and Family

    More Durrell Family Adventures on Corfu

    The inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series, The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's childhood adventures with animals—and humans—on a Greek island.For a passionate animal lover like young Gerald Durrell, the island in the Ionian Sea was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts. As he writes . . ."To me, this blue kingdom was a treasure house of strange beasts which I longed to ... Leer más

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  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

    A Journey to the Flora and Fauna of a Unique Island

    Travel to Mauritius on a quest to save endangered species with the British naturalist whose work inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu.The green and mountainous island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean was once the home of the ill-fated dodo. The island saw many other animals vanish from its soil, and by the 1970s, numerous species were close to being eliminated. Enter Gerald ... Leer más

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