My Family and Other Animals -

Gerald Durrell

Macmillan Collector's Library

2016

376 páginas

12h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781909621985

My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Peter Olney, former Keeper of Birds at the London Zoo, and a distinguished ornithologist who was awarded the Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal in 2003.

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4.5 (Muito bom)

My Family and Other Animals

Neste livro, Gerald Durrell, um naturalista inglês retrata sua infância na ilha de Corfu na Grécia, mesclando entre relatos de suas descobertas e expedições pela ilha e sua paixão por animais com histórias sobre sua excêntrica família.

Durrel consegue escrever de uma forma suave e interessante que coisas que poderiam ser consideradas banais ganham um ar de aventura e ação, como uma luta entre um Louva-a-Deus e uma Lagartixa!