Fed up with the cold, harsh winters of England, the Durrell family gives up on it and decides to move to a country with better weather. One of the most pleasurable, rib-tickling adventure comedy books that I have read, My Family and Other Animals is the narration of author Gerald Durrell’s childhood life in the exotic Greek Island of Corfu. Now add to it some hilarious experiences with some of the most startling animals, a shooting adventure gone bad, loads of parties with unusual guests, animal hunting in orchards of olives and grapes, swimming in the cool, brilliantly blue, dolphin filled seas, memorable picnics to the most unusual but beautiful places and you have the story of this gem of a book! Imagine the animal lover in you, moving to a new exotic place, with your mildly eccentric family. ― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.” Gerald Durrell died in 1995.“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. His first television programme, Two in the Bush, which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962 he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925.
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