Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist. He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone.

A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-colle Gerald 'Gerry' Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. Gerald 'Gerry' Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925.

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