by Gerald Durrell · EMPURIES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475961545
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«La meva família i altres animals» is the autobiographical work by Gerald Durrell, published by Empúries in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Gerald Durrell recalls his childhood in Corfu, where his family moves to escape the British climate. In their villas, his mother and siblings —Margo, Leslie and Lawrence— live alongside scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. The author blends naturalist observation, family portrait and humour.
First instalment of the Corfu trilogy; the original work dates from 1956 and this edition from 1996. Catalan translation by Pep Julià.
For lovers of nature, childhood memoirs and British humour; a classic that brings the life and landscapes of Corfu closer.
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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.
