by Gerald Durrell · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140013993
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«My Family and Other Animals» is Gerald Durrell's autobiography, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Gerald Durrell recalls his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu: his eccentric family shares the villa with a parade of animals he studies and brings home, from toads, tortoises and bats to scorpions, geckos and other local creatures. The book combines family anecdotes and natural history with humor and fascination.
It is the first installment of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy, originally published in 1956.
For nature lovers and travel literature fans; a humorous classic, popular in book clubs.
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.
