Recounted with immense humour and charm, My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of rare, magical childhood.
Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. 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. His first television programme was made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Durrell published his first book,The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.
A bewitching book
*Sunday Times*
Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal
eccentricities
*Sunday Telegraph*
Wickedly funny
*Jojo Moyes*
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