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: Margo Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, Gerald Durrell
genres: Classics, Nature, Autobiography, Travel, Humor, Biography, Greece, Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 54111
places: Corfu
series: Corfu Trilogy
publisher: Turtleback Books