My Family and Other Animals – first edition

Author: Gerald Durrell

Publication date: 1956 Published by: Rupert Hart-Davis

255 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, previous owners details written in pen on first and last page, wear and tear and discolouration to dust jacket, age spots and yellowing, otherwise in very good condition

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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