My family and other animals
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My family and other animals
（Collector's Library）
Collector's Library, 2012
Available at 2 libraries
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First published: 1956
Includes bibliographical references (p. 376)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. The procession of animals includes toads, and tortoises, bats and butterflies scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-beetles, Ulysses, the Scops owl, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and of course the magpies. The family is fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro, and Gerald is mentored by the polymath Dr Theodore Stephanides who provides his education in natural history.
With an Introduction by Peter Olney.
Table of Contents
Introduction - i: The Speech for the Defence
Unit - 1: Part One
Chapter - 0: The Migration
Chapter - 1: The Unsuspected Isle
Chapter - 2: The Strawberry-Pink Villa
Chapter - 3: The Rose-Beetle Man
Chapter - 4: A Bushel of Learning
Chapter - 5: A Treasure of Spiders
Chapter - 6: The Sweet Spring
Chapter - 0: Conversation
Unit - 2: Part Two
Chapter - 7: The Daffodil-Yellow Villa
Chapter - 8: The Tortoise Hills
Chapter - 9: The World in a Wall
Chapter - 10: The Pageant of Fireflies
Chapter - 11: The Enchanted Archipelago
Chapter - 12: The Woodcock Winter
Chapter - 0: Conversation
Unit - 3: Part Three
Chapter - 13: The Snow-White Villa
Chapter - 14: The Talking Flowers
Chapter - 15: The Cyclamen Woods
Chapter - 16: The Lake of Lilies
Chapter - 17: The Chessboard Fields
Chapter - 18: An Entertainment with Animals
Chapter - 0: The Return
Acknowledgements - ii: A Message from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Acknowledgements - iii: Afterword
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