by Gerald Durrell · Gardners Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140282597
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«My Family and Other Animals» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Gardners Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Gerald Durrell recounts his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu, where his family moved to escape the British climate. Amid the eccentricities of his mother and siblings, young Gerry devotes himself to studying the local wildlife and bringing home all kinds of animals, from scorpions and geckos to bats and butterflies.
This book opens the Corfu Trilogy. The work was originally published in 1956; this Penguin Essentials edition appeared in 1999.
Recommended for those new to English literature and for lovers of nature memoirs 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.
