by Gerald Durrell · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420674216
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In 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives', Gerald Durrell continues the chronicle of his family's stay on the island of Corfu, narrating autobiographically and with amusing anecdotes his childhood. The countryside and the sea become his school, where the contemplation of animals provides him with a unique perspective on human rationality. This edition of Alianza Editorial presents the translation by María Luisa Balseiro.
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.
