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When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell's family's experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home. Amazon.com Review As a self-described ''champion of small uglies,'' English writer Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that were, according to him, ''rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.'' As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with ''all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on nat

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Author

Durrell, Gerald

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780142004418

Category

humor

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.26 / 5 (20,655 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14