Gerald Durrell

My Family and Other Animals (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells.

The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell

Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.

But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies.

Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood.

'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph

'A bewitching book' Sunday Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241982419
• Artikelnr.: 48071696

Autorenporträt

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme, Two in the Bush¿ which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: The Speech for the Defence Unit
1: Part One Chapter
0: The Migration Chapter
1: The Unsuspected Isle Chapter
2: The Strawberry
Pink Villa Chapter
3: The Rose
Beetle Man Chapter
4: A Bushel of Learning Chapter
5: A Treasure of Spiders Chapter
6: The Sweet Spring Chapter
0: Conversation Unit
2: Part Two Chapter
7: The Daffodil
Yellow Villa Chapter
8: The Tortoise Hills Chapter
9: The World in a Wall Chapter
10: The Pageant of Fireflies Chapter
11: The Enchanted Archipelago Chapter
12: The Woodcock Winter Chapter
0: Conversation Unit
3: Part Three Chapter
13: The Snow
White Villa Chapter
14: The Talking Flowers Chapter
15: The Cyclamen Woods Chapter
16: The Lake of Lilies Chapter
17: The Chessboard Fields Chapter
18: An Entertainment with Animals Chapter
0: The Return Acknowledgements
ii: A Message from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Acknowledgements
iii: Afterword

Rezensionen

I do assure you, the world needs Durrell. Sir David Attenborough

A bewitching book Sunday Times