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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.
Segunda parte de la célebre trilogía de Corfú -iniciada con «Mi familia y otros animales y concluida con «El jardín de los dioses»-, Bichos y demás parientes prosigue la crónica de la estancia de Gerald Durrell y su familia en la isla mediterránea, así como la narración autobiográfica, sembrada de divertidas anécdotas, de una infancia envidiable, con el campo y el mar como única escuela, y sin más clave de explicación de la alarmante racionalidad de los seres humanos que la que proporciona la contemplación atenta y curiosa de esos «parientes» supuestamente irracionales que son los miembros de la familia animal ( )
Bichos y demás parientes prosigue la crónica de la estancia de Gerald Durrell y su familia en la isla mediterránea, así como la narración autobiográfica, sembrada de divertidas anécdotas, de una infancia envidiable, con el campo y el mar como única escuela, y sin más clave de explicación de la alarmante racionalidad de los seres humanos que la que proporciona la contemplación atenta y curiosa de esos «parientes» supuestamente irracionales que son los miembros de la familia animal.
Durrell revisits his childhood on Corfu – since clearly he forgot some of the best stories, according to his family. Full of beautiful and silly reminiscences of a different time, a different place. ( )
When I was eleven years old my grandmother gave me Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals for Christmas. I read it cover to cover before New Years and have reread it several times since. While My Family and Other Animals is very appropriate for an eleven year old Birds, Beasts and Relatives has somewhat more adult content. This is the second of a Corfu Trilogy. Gerald's adventures catching and collecting all kinds of wild creatures and the people he meets on the island of Corfu make for some very amusing tales. The author's older brother Lawrence Durrell lived with the family and brought many interesting and amusing friends to visit. Among the animals in this book are Gerald's donkey, Sara, three dogs, two owls, a toad and a bear that follows Gerry home and shocks the family at tea. A fun book. Just as amusing as the TV series or maybe more so. ( )
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To Theodore Stephanides in gratitude for laughter and for learning.
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It had been a hard winter, and even when spring was supposed to have taken over, the crocuses - which seemed to have a touching and unshaken faith in the seasons - were having to push their way grimly through a thin crust of snow.
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Lulled by the wine and the throbbing heart of the boat's engine, lulled by the warm night and the singing, I fell asleep while the boat carried us back across the warm, smooth waters to our island and the brilliant days that were not to be.
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.
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