The Corfu Trilogy (My Family and Other Animals/Garden of the Gods/Birds, Beasts and Relatives)
by Durrell, Gerald
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Synopsis
Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family. ‘A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things’ New York Times
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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12847
- Title
- The Corfu Trilogy (My Family and Other Animals/Garden of the Gods/Birds, Beasts and Relatives)
- Author
- Durrell, Gerald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis/Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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