by Gerald Durrell · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475967479
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«La meva família i altres animals» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
In these memoirs, Gerald Durrell recalls his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu, where his eccentric family moved from England. Surrounded by scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies, the young naturalist portrays both the animals and his peculiar relatives with humour and tenderness.
First instalment of the «Trilogía de Corfú», translated by Josep Julià Ballbé. Original title: «My Family and Other Animals».
Recommended for readers aged 12 and over interested in nature and humorous memoirs.
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.
