My Family and Other Animals - Couverture souple

Durrell, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140282599 ISBN 13 : 9780140282597

Editeur : Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy, this delightful book tells of Gerald Durrell's early life with his 'family and other animals'.

Brought vividly to life are the extraordinary members of the Durrell family and theirmany eccentric hangers-on, as well as the bizarre menagerie Gerry adopts for closer study. The procession of creatures he brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow or the snow-white villa includes toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke and, of course, the Magenpies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerald Durrell was born in 1925 in India. His family eventually settled on the island of Corfu, where his interest in wildlife, a cause to which he would dedicate his life, first grew. He travelled extensively on zoological expeditions, and made over seventy television programmes on wildlife subjects. In 1982 he was awarded the OBE. Encouraged to write by his brother Lawrence, his first book, The Overloaded Ark (1953) became a bestseller, and he went on to write 36 other titles. He died in 1995.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140282599
• ISBN 13: 9780140282597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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