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Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy, this delightful book tells of Gerald Durrell's early life with his 'family and other animals'.Brought vividly to life are the extraordinary members of the Durrell family and theirmany eccentric hangers-on, as well as the bizarre menagerie Gerry adopts for closer study. The procession of creatures he brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow or the snow-white villa includes toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke and, of course, the Magenpies.
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My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
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- Released
- 2010
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gerald Durrell
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0140282599
- ISBN13
- 9780140282597
- Series
- Corfu Trilogy
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Nature, Humor, Animals, Family, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, British Literature, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Childhood, Greece, Islands, Journeys and Stays, Corfu, Zoologists
- First published
- 1956
- Original title
- My Family and Other Animals
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
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- Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy, this delightful book tells of Gerald Durrell's early life with his 'family and other animals'.Brought vividly to life are the extraordinary members of the Durrell family and theirmany eccentric hangers-on, as well as the bizarre menagerie Gerry adopts for closer study. The procession of creatures he brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow or the snow-white villa includes toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke and, of course, the Magenpies.