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My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
My Family and Other Animals is the semi-autobiographical account of prepubescent Gerald's expat life on the Greek island of Corfu with his upper crust, eccentric, English family. Happily, this entertaining book far-exceeded my expectations.
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MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS Gerald Durrell Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. In 1928 his family returned to England and in 1933 they went to live on the Continent. Eventually they settled on the island of Corfu, where they lived until 1939. During this time
A brief overview of the novel by Gerald Durrell, based on his childhood in Corfu, Greece. The story follows the adventures of Gerry and his family, who encounter various animals, people, and cultures in their new home.
A humorous and charming account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, where the Durrell family encounters a menagerie of local fauna. Learn more about the author, the book and the series by Gerald Durrell, a treasured British conservationist.
About My Family and Other Animals. The first book in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.
