by Gerald Durrell · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418833038
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«La meva família i altres animals» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (352 pages, in Catalan).
In 1935 the Durrell family leaves rainy England to settle in Corfu. Young Gerry, a future naturalist, is fascinated by the island's wildlife while his eccentric family (brothers Larry, Les and Margo, and their mother Louise) and local characters turn his childhood into a free and happy time.
First installment of the Corfu Trilogy, translated into Catalan by Josep Julià Ballbé. Part of the Empúries Narrativa collection.
A classic for general readers, especially those who enjoy memoirs, nature and humor.
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.
