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My Family and Other Animals Book

As a self-described "champion of small uglies," Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that were, according to him, "rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas". As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with "all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids". Durrell's descriptions of his family and its many eccentric hangers-on (he stresses that "all the anecdotes about the island and the islanders are absolutely true") are highly entertaining, as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely book. --Christine ButteryRead More

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  • Amazon

    It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family, with its many eccentric hangers-on, or the animals. In this work, the author studies and brings back to the strawberry pink, the daffodil-yellow, or the snow-white villa.

  • Play

    This book is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu where the author lived as a boy with his 'Family and other Animals.' It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family with its many eccentric hangers-on or the animals Gerry studies and brings back to the strawberry pink the daffodil-yellow or the snow-white villa. The procession includes toads and tortoises bats and butterflies scorpions and geckos ladybirds glow-worms octopuses and rose-beetles Quasimodo the pigeon the puppies Widdle and Puke and of course the magpies.

  • Penguin

    Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.

  • 0140013997
  • 9780140013993
  • Gerald Durrell
  • 4 November 2004
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • New Impression
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