My Family and Other Animals (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Durrell, Gerald

ISBN 10: 1909621986 / ISBN 13: 9781909621985

Published by Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Family and Other Animals (Macmillan Collector's Library)
• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909621986
• ISBN 13: 9781909621985
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The inspiration behind hit family drama The Durrells.

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.

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.

About the Author

Gerald Durrell - naturalist, author, media personality, conservationist and founder of the internationally renowned Jersey Zoo. He was a passionate and persuasive advocate of the need for the conservation of animals and plants and their habitats. A larger than life character, he was a brilliant story-teller in speech and in print.