by Gerald Durrell · Alianza. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420630625
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«Bichos y demás parientes» is the autobiographical chronicle by Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
In these childhood memoirs, Gerald Durrell recalls his life on the Greek island of Corfu. With humor and a naturalist's eye, he blends family life and eccentric neighbors with a varied zoological catalog: beetles, snails, talking heads and curious marine fauna.
Second volume of the Corfu trilogy, between «Mi familia y otros animales» and «El jardín de los dioses». Original title: «Birds, Beasts and Relatives» (1969). Translation by María Luisa Balseiro.
For readers of humorous memoirs, nature writing and stories set in Greece, and for those wanting to complete the Corfu trilogy.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
