num_pages: 400
description: When the Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would sell their house and relocate to the sun-soaked Greek island of Corfu. Through glorious silver-and-green olive groves and across brilliant tusk-white beaches, ten-year-old Gerry, the youngest of the four Durrell children, pursues his interest in natural history with a joyful passion, revealing the engrossing hidden world of the island's fauna. Many hilarious mishaps ensue as each of Gerry's new animal friends is installed in the family villa. Water snakes recuperate from heat stroke in the bathtub, matchboxes are filled with scorpions, and a pair of rowdy magpies make short order of everything from elaborate dinner spreads to Lawrence's prized manuscript to the patience of the family puppies, Widdle and Puke. Toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and geckos, ladybugs, praying mantises, octopuses, pigeons, and gulls are only some of the animals lovingly described in Durrell's classic tale of his childhood island home.
language: English
title: My Family and Other Animals
titlecomplete: My Family and Other Animals
characters: Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, Margo Durrell, Gerald Durrell
genres: Greece, Biography, Animals, Travel, Nature, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor
ratings_count: 54097
places: Corfu
series: Corfu Trilogy
publisher: House of Stratus Ltd