My Family and Other Animals

Name: My Family and Other Animals
Author: Gerald Durrell

by Gerald Durrell

Naturalist's humorous memoir of eccentric family and exotic animal collecting on Greek island of Corfu

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald Durrell was a British author, zookeeper, and naturalist whose My Family and Other Animals is one of the most beloved comic memoirs in the English language. His warmly funny accounts of his Corfu childhood and his passion for wildlife conservation reached enormous popular readership.

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