by Gerald Durrell · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435033824
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«Ocells, bèsties i parents» is the second installment of Gerald Durrell's memoirs, published by Edhasa in paperback (304 pages).
The author recalls his years of childhood and adolescence on the island of Corfu between 1933 and 1939: the fauna he collects, the visits and the domestic episodes of his eccentric family. The narrative combines the naturalist's eye with the tone of a coming-of-age diary, and is sprinkled with humorous scenes and tenderness.
It is the second volume of the Corfu trilogy; the translation of this edition is by Pep Julià.
For readers of memoirs and travel writing who enjoy humor and animal stories.
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.
