by Gerald Durrell · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435034135
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«El jardí dels déus» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Edhasa in paperback (272 pages).
Gerald Durrell's memoirs closing the cycle devoted to his time on Corfu before the First World War. Its pages blend the island's animal life, landscapes, colourful characters and comic situations, all under the nostalgic gaze of an unencumbered youth.
Third instalment of the Corfu trilogy, preceded by «La meva família i altres animals» and «Bitxos i altres parents».
For those who enjoy naturalist memoirs, travel writing and family 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.
