My family and other animals
(2004, original release: 1956)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/DURRELL,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2004
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 273 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780142004418, 0142004413
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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