A cherished read from childhood, I encourage people to sit underneath a tree, on a beach, or during lunch in the garden, when reading this book.

Heck, if you need to brighten up your day in the middle of a rainy February evening, that works too; I can’t stop you!

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Amazon.ca Information

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk
As a self-described “champion of small uglies,” Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family’s experiences that were, according to him, “rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas”.

As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with “all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam–jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids”. Durrell’ descriptions of his family and its many eccentric hangers–on (he stresses that “all the anecdotes about the island and the islanders are absolutely true”) are highly entertaining, as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely book.
— Christine Buttery

About the Author
Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. A student of zoology, he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey. His other books include A Zoo in My Luggage and The Whispering Land. — This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Released on Saturday, July 13, 2002 at Bench in 1700 block of Williams in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.

1/2 block east of commercial drive infrom of that house with the cool lights in the tree. Wow! what a great garden/ paradise spot!

This deals with the whole natural world of the sences, hence the release location.