by Gerald Durrell · ELT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140814538
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«My Family and Other Animals» is the graded reader by Gerald Durrell, published by ELT in paperback, in English.
The Durrell family leaves the British climate to settle on the Greek island of Corfu, where young Gerald lives among a varied fauna of scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. What was meant to be a study of natural history turns into an amusing portrait of an eccentric family and the animals that end up invading their home.
Abridged edition from Penguin Readers, level 3, published in 1995. First part of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language who want to practise reading with pre-intermediate level texts.
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.
