by Gerald Durrell · PROA, Barcelona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484372431
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«Ocells, bèsties i parents» is Gerald Durrell's autobiographical and naturalist account, published by Proa in paperback (299 pages, in Catalan).
Gerald Durrell returns to the Greek island of Corfu in this autobiographical account that combines observation of nature with portraits of people and places. The book brings together encounters with local wildlife, island customs and episodes featuring Gerald Durrell's eccentric relatives, narrated with a humorous tone.
Continuation of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which began with «Mi familia y otros animales».
Will appeal to those who enjoy nature writing and humorous accounts of customs, as well as portraits of eccentric characters.
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.
