My Family and Other Animals

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241982413
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Gerald Durrell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV'sThe 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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Publisher : Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194244008
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Bill Bowler and published by Oxford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weather in England that summer had been so awful that Gerald's mother sold the family house and took her children to live on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Between lessons, the ten-year-old Gerald was free to walk round the sunny island and discover the wonderful people and animals living there. This is a story of Gerald's adventures.

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Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Gerald Malcolm Durrell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
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My Family and Other Animals-TV TIE IN Edition

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241977622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals-TV TIE IN Edition written by Gerald Durrell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells. 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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Total Pages : 301 pages
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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Gerald Durrel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Family and Other Animals

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417617364
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Gerald Durrell and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy with his "family and other animals, " this book evocatively chronicles his five-year sojourn on the Greek island. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his eccentric family and their many unusual hangers-on, My Family and Other Animals also captures the beginnings of Durrell's lifelong love of animals. In its passionate understanding of Corfu's natural history, this is an entertaining and enduring memoir.

The Garden of the Gods

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041682
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Garden of the Gods written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s adventures with animals—and humans—on a Greek island. When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around him—and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell’s years growing up on Corfu would inspire the rest of his life. In addition to his tales of wild animals, Durrell recounts stories about his even wilder family—including his widowed mother, Louisa, and elder siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margo—with undeniable wit and humor. The final chapter in Durrell’s reflections on his family’s time in Greece before the start of World War II, The Garden of the Gods is a fascinating look at the childhood of a naturalist who was ahead of his time. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Birds, Beasts and Relatives

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041666
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Birds, Beasts and Relatives written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clever observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Fauna and Family

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 156792591X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Fauna and Family written by Gerald Durrell and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fauna and Family, also known as The Garden of the Gods, is the third in Durrell’s Corfu trilogy that begins with his beloved classic, My Family and Other Animals and continues with Birds, Beasts and Relatives. In his foreword to Fauna and Family, Durrell confessed that in the first two books, “I had left out a number of incidents and characters that I would have liked to have described, and I have attempted to repair this omission in this book . . . I hope that it might give the same pleasure to its readers as apparently its predecessors have done, as for me it portrays a very important part of my life . . . which is a truly happy and sunlit childhood.”

The Corfu Trilogy

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504043324
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The Corfu Trilogy written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume. The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television. Included in this three-book collection are: My Family and Other Animals: Ten-year-old Gerald Durrell arrives on sun-drenched Corfu with this family and pursues his interest in natural history, making friends with the island’s fauna—from toads and tortoises to scorpions and geckos—while reveling in the joyous chaos of growing up in an unconventional household. Birds, Beasts and Relatives: Written after a boyhood spent studying zoology, this memoir is part nature guide, part coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. The Garden of the Gods: In the conclusion of the trilogy, Durrell shares more tales of wild animals and his even wilder family, including his mother, Louisa, and his siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margo, in the years before World War II. “[Durrell’s] books have an unfailing charm. . . . It is a tribute to his skill that one never tires of his accounts” (Chicago Tribune). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Looking for the Durrells

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Publisher : Harper Inspire
ISBN 13 : 0310130468
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Looking for the Durrells written by Melanie Hewitt and published by Harper Inspire. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiancés, friends, and other animals. . . After a year that sees a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away. Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu--an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals. On the island, Penny quickly finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers. Exploring--searching for the places the Durrells knew decades before--she makes unexpected discoveries about the hopes, fears, and secrets of the people living there today. And as strangers start to be friends, lives past and present become entwined in ways none of them could have predicted. . .

Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories

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Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559701808
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories written by Gerald Durrell and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of eight short stories by the author observing absurdity that abounds in the world.

Menagerie Manor

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504042603
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Menagerie Manor written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved naturist and author of My Family and Other Animals shares the pleasures and pitfalls of opening a zoo on the English Channel Island of Jersey. Spurred by his passion for animals and a lifelong dream, in the spring of 1959 Gerald Durrell opened the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park—on the grounds of an old manor house. The menagerie provided a safe habitat for rare and endangered species and exposed its human visitors to the wonders of nature. Dealing with escapee animals and overdrawn bank accounts, Durrell soon discovered that owning and operating a fledgling zoo was no easy task. But despite the setbacks, these charming, often hilarious stories make clear that, for Durrell, ensuring the park’s success and helping the creatures he loved so dearly was worth any obstacle. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Encounters with Animals

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141971304
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Animals written by Gerald Durrell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others. Told with his trademark charm and humour, Gerald Durrell's Encounters with Animals is a uniquely entertaining exploration of some of the world's most striking landscapes and the wildlife it is home to.

Two in the Bush

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ISBN 13 : 9780006345541
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Two in the Bush written by Gerald Durrell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two in the Bush" is a record of the six-month journey which took Gerald Durrell, his wife Jacquie, and two cameramen through New Zealand, Australia and Malaya. The object was, first, to see what was being done about the conservation of wild life in these countries, and, secondly, to make a series of television films for the BBC. They were introduced to many rare and remarkable animals - Royal Albatrosses, Tuataras, Duck-Billed Platypuses, Flying Lizards and Long-Nosed Bandicoots, as well as to some equally unusual humans. Anyone who has read "The Overloaded Ark," "The Bafut Beagles" or "The Whispering Land" will have enjoyed Gerald Durrell's enthusiastic adventuring and his delight in the absurdity of the situations in which he finds himself. His observation of animal - and human - behaviour is always informative and often hilarious. 'Delightfully readable and often very funny.' "Daily Mail" 'An account of Gerald Durrell's tour of New Zealand, Australia and Malaya in search of rarities . . . Easy to read, difficult to put down, with many vivid sidelights on the human side of the expedition. This absorbing narrative reveals the ardours, ironies and disappointments, the organizational miracles and the hilarious human mishaps . . .' Maurice Wiggin, "Sunday Times" 'Mr Durrell has the knack of writing about animals and their antics with tremendous affection and enthusiasm, but without sentimentality.' "Sunday Telegraph" 'Will delight his fans and armchair naturalists everywhere.' "Evening Standard"

Fillets of Plaice

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150404259X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Fillets of Plaice written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated naturalist and author of the Corfu Trilogy, shares more humorous reflections on a life spent among humans and animals. In My Family and Other Animals and its sequels, Gerald Durrell writes of his family’s antics during their time on the Greek island of Corfu. In his later memoirs, he vividly describes his expeditions to other, faraway places. In Fillets of Plaice, he compiles a quintet of hilarious stories that touch on all of the above and more—from his unconventional childhood to his passion for animal conservation as an adult. His adventures range from a rollicking birthday party to a London pet shop to the exotic locale of deepest Africa. Throughout it all, Durrell entertains with his signature charming, witty voice. A compendium of outrageous tales, Fillets of Plaice is perfect for longtime fans of Durrell’s work, and anyone looking for a heartwarming, riotous read. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.