| Description |
375 pages ; 16 cm |
| Note |
"This edition first published by Collector's Library 2012."--Title page verso. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 -- Childhood and youth.
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Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 -- Family.
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Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 -- Homes and haunts -- Greece -- Corfu Island.
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Dorrell family.
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Dorrell family. (OCoLC)fst00220051
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Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995. (OCoLC)fst01427407
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Zoologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Corfu Island (Greece) -- Description and travel.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Zoologists. (OCoLC)fst01184692
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Greece -- Corfu Island.
(OCoLC)fst01240964
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Olney, Peter J. S. (Peter James Stephen), 1931- writer of afterword.
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| ISBN |
9781909621985 |
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1909621986 |
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