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My family and other animals / Gerald Durrell ; with an afterword by Peter J.S. Olney.

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 (author.). Olney, Peter J. S. (Peter James Stephen), 1931- (author of afterword, colophon, etc).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781909621985
  • ISBN: 1909621986
  • Physical Description: 375 pages ; 16 cm
  • Publisher: London : Macmillan Collectors Library, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"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."--Jacket.
"This edition first published by Collector's Library 2012."--Title page verso.
Originally published : London : Hart-Davis, 1956.
Target Audience Note:
1140L Lexile
Subject:
Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 > Childhood and youth.
Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 > Family.
Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 > Homes and haunts > Greece > Corfu Island.
Dorrell family.
Zoologists > Great Britain > Biography.
Corfu Island (Greece) > Description and travel.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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Jacksonville Main Library 508.4955 DUR (Text) 36015000684049 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/06/2026