My family and other animals

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Title:

My family and other animals

Author:

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995, author.

Olney, Peter J. S. (Peter James Stephen), 1931- writer of afterword.

Series:

Corfu trilogy ;

Series Number:

Summary:

My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.

General Note:

"This edition first published by Collector's Library 2012."--Title page verso.

Contents:

The speech for the defence -- Part One. The migration -- The unsuspcted isle -- The strawberry-pink villa -- The rose-beetle man -- A bushel of learning -- A treasure of spiders -- The sweet spring -- Conversation -- Part Two. The daffodil-yellow villa -- The tortoise hills -- The world in a wall -- The pageant of fireflies -- The enchanted archipelago -- The woodcock winter -- Conversation -- Part Three. The snow-white villa -- The talking flowers -- The cyclamen woods -- The lake of lilies -- The chessboard fields -- An entertainment with animals -- The return -- A message from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust -- Afterword. Louisa -- Lawrence -- Leslie -- Margo -- Gerald -- A personal postscript.

Physical Description:

375 pages ; 16 cm

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Personal Subject:

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995.

Durrell family.

Subject Term:

Zoologists -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

Corfu Island (Greece) -- Description and travel.

Author(s):

Olney, Peter J. S. (Peter James Stephen), 1931-

Publisher:

Macmillan Collectors Library,

Publication Date:

2016

2012

ISBN:

9781909621985

Publication Information:

London : Macmillan Collectors Library, 2016.

Call Number:

920 DURRELL

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My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.

This edition features an afterword by Peter Olney, former Keeper of Birds at the London Zoo, and a distinguished ornithologist who was awarded the Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal in 2003.

Author Notes

Gerald Durrell was born on January 7, 1925 in Jamshedpur, India to British parents. After the death of his father in 1928, the family lived in England and Europe before settling in Corfu, where he spent much of his childhood. Educated by private tutors, he became interested in natural history and amassed a private collection of dozens of creatures from scorpions to owls. He went on numerous wildlife expeditions and founded the Jersey Zoological Park and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust with the purpose of breeding endangered species.

His first book, The Overloaded Ark, was published in 1953. He wrote 37 books during his lifetime including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, A Zoo in My Luggage, Rosy Is My Relative, and The Mockery Bird. He received the Order of the British Empire in 1982 and was featured in the United Nations' Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement in 1988. He died from complications related to a liver transplant on January 30, 1995 at the age of 70.

(Bowker Author Biography)