by Gerald Durrell · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582416833
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«My Family and Other Animals» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (48 pages, in English).
Gerald Durrell humorously recalls his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu, where his family moves to escape the British climate. Little Gerry is fascinated by nature and keeps bringing animals and insects home, to his family's despair, until he shares the house with scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies.
Graded reader from the Penguin Readers series, level 3; it is the first volume of the Corfu trilogy. Edition published in 1999.
It is aimed at intermediate-level English students and teenagers who want to read in English with adapted vocabulary.
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.
