My Family and Other Animals
Corfu Trilogy 1
- Auteur: Gerald Durrell (Engeland)
- Soort boek: autobiografie uit 1956
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Classics
- Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: £ 10,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals review, recensie en informatie
- “Gerald Durrell was magic.” (Sir David Attenborough)
- “When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light.” (Kathryn Hughes, Guardian)
Flaptekst van deel 1 van autobiografie van Gerald Durrell
“Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.” (Gerald Durrell)
It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of 
Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.
Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Corfu trilogy 2
The Durrell clan’s escapades on their Greek island home resume with the second volume of the Corfu Trilogy. Budding zoologist Gerald continues to explore the natural wonders around him, enjoying a night fishing trip, receiving a donkey as a birthday present and accidentally bringing a bear home for tea…lees verder >