num_pages: 273
description: Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy with his "family and other animals," this book evocatively chronicles his five-year sojourn on the Greek island. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his eccentric family and their many unusual hangers-on, My Family and Other Animals also captures the beginnings of Durrell's lifelong love of animals. In its passionate understanding of Corfu's natural history, this is an entertaining and enduring memoir.
language: English
title: My Family and Other Animals
titlecomplete: My Family and Other Animals
characters: Gerald Durrell, Leslie Durrell, Margo Durrell, Lawrence Durrell
genres: Biography, Animals, Nature, Greece, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Classics, Autobiography, Travel
ratings_count: 54099
places: Corfu
series: Corfu Trilogy
publisher: Penguin USA (P)