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Book · 1956 · Nonfiction

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 273 pages
★ 5.0 editorial score

On Corfu in the 1930s a boy hunts scorpions and owls while his mother and three grown siblings supply the chaos. Durrell describes every creature exactly and every relative without mercy.

Genre
HumorMemoirNature writingTravel literature
Medium
Memoir
Subject
ChildhoodFamilyAnimalsNature
Setting
Corfu
Time
1956Depicts 1930s

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