by Gerald Durrell · Ediciones Bromera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482561042
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«Ocells, bèsties i parents» is Gerald Durrell's memoir, published by Ediciones Bromera in paperback (304 pages, in Catalan).
In these pages, Gerald Durrell returns to the island of Corfu where he spent his childhood and recovers a world of memories: an unusual family, nature excursions, and animals that become protagonists. The childlike gaze turns the everyday into discovery and sustains the humorous tone of the narrative.
The Bromera edition, published on 1 March 1995, is the Catalan version of Gerald Durrell's memoirs.
Suitable reading for all ages, especially for those seeking nature and humour in an autobiographical account.
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.
