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Det er en vederkvægende oplevelse at besøge Korfu hånd i hånd med Gerald Durrell og genfinde den sollyse barndom i hans muntre selskab. Korfu var en fortrullet ø, hvor beboerne var ligeså aparte for ikke at sige småskøre som dyrene var mærkelige og vidund
Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, th
Den britiske zoolog Gerald Durrell tilbragte sin barndom i 1930erne på den græske ø Korfu. Det var en barndom helt uden iPad og tv, faktisk ikke engang radio. Til gengæld var den fuld af lange, solfyldte dage på opdagelse på den paradisiske ø med hunden R
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we all need,' s
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting
Gerald Durrells beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of brig
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives ), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the gloriou
The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young
Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Gerald Durrell's much-loved comic gem. My Family and Other Animals is the classic tale of naturalist Gerald Durrell's magical 1930s childhood on pre-war Corfu. His descriptions o
"All of these stories are true," states Gerald Durrell in the preface to this newest collection of his fiction, but he quickly amends, "To be strictly accurate, some are true, some have a kernel of truth and a shell of embroidery." Ran
*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells* Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals , Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald
The first book in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu. When the unconventional Durrell family can n
Gerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bri
Volume two in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu. Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals i
A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne. Gerald Durrell was magic SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH A wise, genial and world-encompassing book
" Hvorfor gifter du dig ikke igen? foreslog han. Du har set træt og hærget ud på det sidste, nærmest som en overanstrengt nonne. Vel har jeg da ej, sagde mor forarget. Du ser sådan lidt spids og gammeljomfruagtig ud, sagde Larry, nogenlunde som Lug
"Man siger, at et barn, der drømmer om at blive lokomotivfører, meget sjældent bliver i stand til at udfylde denne rolle som voksen. Hvis det er sandt, er jeg et usædvanligt heldigt menneske, for i en alder af bare to år besluttede jeg fast og uigenk
Tv-personlighed, dyrepasser, indehaver af en zoologisk have og forfatter Gerald Durrell har ikke så lidt på cvet. Men bag det hele ligger en eventyrlig barndom omgivet af vilde dyr i Indien, på Korfu og andre vidunderlige steder, der har inspireret Geral
"Det raslede i krattet, og en stor fugl kom til syne mellem bladene. Peter stirrede vantro på den, for den fugl var det sidste på jorden, han havde ventet at se. Det var utvivlsomt en spillevende spøgefugl, der med hovedet let på skrå sendte ham et s
"Verdens bedste bog", Anders Kofoed, forfatter til Superkryb og 100 myter om dyr . England, 1935:Durrell-familien fårnok af det fugtige, grå engelske klima, sælgerhuset og flytter til den solbeskinnede græske ø Korfu. Her opdager den yngste af d