- Natural history, Description and travel, Zoologists, Biography
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
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Warm, classical in form, nostalgic and resolved.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- R. Hart-Davis, Tandem Library, Viking Press
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Polish, Russian, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780844660738
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“July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.”
British naturalist and author, founder of the Jersey Zoo (now called the Durrell Wildlife Park). Many of his books deal with collecting animals for zoos but he later became more concerned with conservation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell>Wikipedia</a>).
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