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My Family and Other Animals (The Corfu Trilogy Book 1)
The inspiration behind hit family drama The Durrells in Corfu on PBS. Holli Petersen picked this memoir as one of the books she loved on episode 181 of WSIRN, describing it as if Steve Irwin wrote like Jane Austen with the observations of David Sedaris. It's the book that started their Shelf Sisters book club and made them cry with laughter.
About the Book
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.
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