by Gerald Durrell · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633374
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«El jardín de los dioses» is a memoir by Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (259 pages, in Spanish).
Gerald Durrell recalls his adolescence on the island of Corfu before the Great War. It combines observation of wildlife, descriptions of the landscape, portraits of singular characters and humorous anecdotes, with an affectionate tone that recreates a free and full adolescence.
The volume is the third instalment of the Corfu Trilogy, preceded by «Mi familia y otros animales» and «Bichos y demás parientes». The translation is by María Luisa Balseiro.
Aimed at readers of travel memoirs, nature and humour, as well as those who follow Gerald Durrell's autobiographical work.
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.
