by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633367
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«Bichos y demás parientes» is the memoir by naturalist Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (319 pages, in Spanish).
Gerald Durrell continues in this work the autobiographical account of the season his family spent on the Greek island of Corfu. Amid amusing anecdotes and observations of local wildlife, he recalls a free childhood devoted to nature, and contrasts animal behaviour with that of human beings, treated as close relatives.
Second part of the Corfu Trilogy. The work was originally published in 1969 under the title «Birds, Beasts and Relatives».
For readers interested in memoirs, nature and travel stories told with humour.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
