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A prolific author who never fails to be entertaining, Durrell brings us up to date on his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Ever since he was six years old, Durrell knew he wanted to have his own zoo. How he accomplished that--and became a respected nat

The debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon - now Cameroon - (Dec 1947 - Aug 1948) - that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and or

Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrell’s beloved classic My Family and Other Animals and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfill

A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author of My Family and Other Animals introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize-truffling pig in France and an aging Memphis belle.

'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'

Gerald Durrell's accounts

The third volume in the 'Corfu Trilogy' continues the accounts of the young Gerald Durrell during the years that he and his family lived in Corfu before the Second World War. While the animals of Corfu are young Gerald's focus, it is the an

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts and Relativ

A pot-pourri of animal anecdotes, based on hectic days at the author's Jersey zoo and his forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction. First published in 1972. 

A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday Telegraph

If you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and would travel

Bertrand Russell brushes sharply delineated portraits of notable writers, philosophers and politicians. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republi

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller — one critic calling him one of New Zealand's ‘finest and most memorable’. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This honest, stirring work tells of the family and community into which Ih

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：My Life in Dog Years《我的狗年生活》

简介：Gary Paulsen has owned dozens of unforgettable and amazing dogs. In each chapter he tells of one

一部感人至深的回忆录，记述了难忘的一年，一个家庭和一个国家从此被彻底改变。

2014年11月，拜登家族的13名成员聚集在楠塔基特岛，庆祝传统节日感恩节——这一传统他们

作者：Frank McCourt

书名：Angela's Ashes(Frank McCourt #1)《安琪拉的灰烬》

简介：Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion.

作者：Frank McCourt

书名：'Tis: A Memoir(Frank McCourt #2)《弗兰克·麦考特回忆录》

简介：The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic bo

作者: Miranda July

书名：It Chooses You《它选择了你》

英文简介：In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-a

作者: Jeanette Winterson

书名：Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?《为什么幸福当你可以是正常的》

英文简介：Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy

作者：May-lee Chai

书名：hapa girl《继母》

英文简介：In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American a

作者：Ian Frazier

书名：Family《家庭》

英文简介：Family tells the story of Ian Frazier's family in America from the early colonial days to the present. Using le

作者：Paula Fox

书名：Borrowed Finery: A Memoir《借来的华服》

英文简介：Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan or

作者：Etgar Keret

书名：The Seven Good Years《美好的七年》

英文简介：Bagi Etgar Keret, hidup di daerah konflik tidak melulu tentang penderitaan. Lewat cara pandang

作者：Agatha Christie

书名：Come, Tell Me How You Live《情牵叙利亚》

英文简介:Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the

作者：Charles Johnson

书名：The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling《作家之道：对叙事艺术与技巧的思考》

英文简介：From Charles Johnson

作者：Georges Simenon

书名：When I Was Old《当我老了》

英文简介：An intimate inside look at the mind of Georges Simenon, immortalized here in his journals.

In the

作者：Alexie Sherman

书名：You Don't Have to Say You Love Me《你不必说你爱我》

英文简介：A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the c

作者：Edith Eger

书名：The Choice: Embrace the Possible《选择：拥抱可能》

英文简介：Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award

At the age of six

作者：Pearl S. Buck

书名：The Child Who Never Grew《从未长大的孩子》

英文简介：Originally published in 1950, Buck's account of her struggle to help and understa

作者：Norman Mailer

书名：The Prisoner of Sex《性囚徒》

英文简介：Here, by America's foremost candidate for the Nobel Prize, is the book that some fifteen years

作者：Joyce Carol Oates

书名：A Widow's Story《寡妇的故事》

英文简介：Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the univers

作者：Mary McCarthy

书名：Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938《思想回忆录:纽约 1936—1938》

英文简介：Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years i

作者：Mary McCarthy

书名：How I Grew《我的成长史》

英文简介：How I Grew is Mary McCarthy’s intensely personal autobiography of her life from age thirteen

作者：Mary McCarthy

书名：Memories of a Catholic Girlhood《一个天主教女孩的童年回忆》

英文简介：This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollect

作者：Joseph Conrad

书名：The Mirror of the Sea《海之镜》

英文简介：First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiog

作者：Richard Ford

书名：Between Them: Remembering My Parents《在他们之间,忆双亲》

英文简介：How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and

作者：Kurt Vonnegut

书名：Letters《书信》

英文简介：This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. W

作者：Kurt Vonnegut

书名：A Man Without a Country《一个没有国家的人》

英文简介：In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny,

作者：William Burroughs

书名：The Cat Inside《里面的猫》

英文简介：Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs re

作者：Martin Amis

书名：Experience: A Memoir《经历：回忆录》

英文简介：The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this fa

作者：Salman Rushdie

书名：Joseph Anton: A Memoir《约瑟夫 · 安东：回忆录》

英文简介：On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a tel