My Family and Other Animals

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Gerald Malcolm Durrell: My Family and Other Animals (2004, Tandem Library)

School & Library Binding

English language

Published July 18, 2004 by Tandem Library.

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My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.

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Hilarious

An English family decamps to the Greek island of Corfu, and manages to make the place madder than it was already. Hilarious vignettes of the family's exploits interspersed with stunning descriptions of the author's observations of the natural world. The encounter between the gecko and the mantis is unparalleled.

Subjects

  • General
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Travel - General