Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Gerald Durrell

eBook - 2016

The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clev...er observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly...

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Published
Open Road Media
Language
English
Main Author
Gerald Durrell
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size7 GB
ISBN9781504041669
Release Date10/11/2016
Kindle Book
ASINB01M07FSO0
Release Date10/11/2016
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9781504041669
Release Date10/11/2016