"The article is a presentation of Botting's book about Gerald Durrell. The title of the article is "The lost paradise of Gerald Durrell". Its first paragraph is a section from "My family and other animals": the moment the ship approaches Corfu and the family faces its beautiful nature. There is a description of Durrell's personality: The restless young man, the successful author, the animal collector, the wild life preserver, the founder of Jersey zoo. Also the columnist mentions some aspects of his private life, his contradictions, his drinking problem and his melancholy times. The article focuses on Durrell's feelings towards Corfu: from adoration to sadness because of the tourists' arrival and its transformation from his own childhood paradise to a tourist destination. He felt guilty for its evolution as he considered that his book played a big role in it. But he continued to visit the island and he has some consolations: The poverty and the illness had disappeared from the island. And as he said once, 'the moon still remains the same'".