by Gerald Durrell, Bill Bowler · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194244008
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«My Family and Other Animals» is the graded reader by Gerald Durrell and Bill Bowler, from Oxford University Press, in paperback (80 pages, in English).
Gerald's family flees the English weather and settles on the Greek island of Corfu. There, between lessons, young Gerald roams the sunny landscape and discovers its unusual neighbors and the wildlife that inhabits it, in an autobiographical account adapted for English learners.
Level 3 of the Dominoes collection from Oxford University Press, an adaptation of the first installment of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy.
Aimed at intermediate-level English learners; recommended reading age is 15 and up.
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.
