My Family And Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) -

Gerald Durrell

Puffin Books

2006

387 páginas

12h 54m

ISBN-13: 9780141321875

Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart... my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home...
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.

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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!