The inspiration behind ITV's hit family drama, The Durrells.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.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,clothbound,pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. 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.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781909621985Number of pages: 376Weight: 210 gDimensions: 157 x 103 x 24 mm
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I do assure you,the world needs Durrell.The enduring joy of the book resides in reading about a bohemian family when you have never been part of one yourself...One night I laughed so hard I slipped out of bed,whacking my head on the nightstandHe (Durrell) produced a literary masterpiece that remains the finest evocation of paradise ever written. He built a paradise based on his own beliefs of what a zoo should be. And after his death in 1995,he left behind an organisation that works to restore a touch of paradise to humanity and to everything else that lives.
Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell was a British author,naturalist and broadcaster,best-known for the autobiographical My Family and Other Animals.
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