lawrence durrell my family and other animals

Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family – including his eldest brother Lawrence Durrell, who became a celebrated novelist and poet – and his heartfelt appreciation of the natural world made it very successful. It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which also includes Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) and The Garden of the Gods (1978).ĭurrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when he published My Family and Other Animals in 1956. It describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner, and explores the fauna of the island. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 19. My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. 'A bewitching book' Sunday Times 27.Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods

This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells.

9780241977620 My Family and Other Animals 27.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books/non-fiction My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.

'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells.Įscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.īut the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells.Įscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the islan.

Lawrence durrell my family and other animals