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My Family and Other Animals (Collector's Library) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for My Family and Other AnimalsApart from naturalist Gerald Durrell (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family of Gerald comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. This title offers an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of Gerald.
Full description- Publisher: Collector's Library
- Published: 01 April 2012
- Format: Hardback 384 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Memoirs | Natural History
- ISBN 13: 9781907360572 ISBN 10: 1907360573
- Sales rank: 141,281
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Full description for My Family and Other Animals
This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. The procession of animals includes toads, and tortoises, bats and butterflies scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles, Ulysses, the Scops owl, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and of course the magpies. The family is fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro, and Gerald is mentored by the polymath Dr Theodore Stephanides who provides his education in natural history.

