CONSERVATIONIST David Bellamy stopped off in the region yesterday as part of his book-signing tour.
He was at the Durham branch of Waterstones to sign copies of his autobiography, Jolly Green Giant.
Covering his whole life, much of it focuses on his time in County Durham, where he has lived since 1960, when he began as a junior lecturer at Durham University.
Mr Bellamy, who lives at Hamsterley, County Durham, said he enjoyed writing it.
"It surprised me how much I could remember."
But he said that while he recounts many interesting experiences in the book, there are no revelations on the scale of those in Edwina Currie's recent autobiography.
"I fell in love when I was 21 and I'm still happily married to the same woman," he said.
"I'm one of the most privileged people on earth - I've travelled all around the world and met nice people doing good things."
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