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Title: Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Malcolm Durrell ISBN: 0-7551-1181-8 Publisher: House of Stratus Inc Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Menagerie
Comment: Gerald Durrell is the younger brother of Lawrence Durrell. The island of Corfu lies off of the Albanian and Greek coastlines. The family settled there to escape the deary English weather.
Gerald's mother fought a losing battle with the Greek language. The family members became familiar with all of the peasants in the region. Gerald had a tutor named George who was an adept of fencing and an adult scientist friend named Theodore.
Gerald visited the rock pools while his sister swam. Margo's sun bathing bothered a church functionary, a monk. Gerald sought permission to follow a fisherman, to accompany him in his boat when he fished at night. The fisherman used a trident to catch scorpios.
There was a myrtle forest near the family's house. Gerald received a rich dark brown donkey for his birthday. The donkey was used by Gerald to transport things. Larry brought home friends, artists and writers, and brought home an artist who could play the accordian, Sven.
Theordore had told a countess that Gerald, who was a fairly young boy at the time, was a naturalist and had a number of pets. The countess offered to give him a white owl who had an injured wing. Gerald went to fetch it and to meet her on his donkey.
He wanted to add baby hedgehogs to his menagerie. When he went away for a weekend his sister overfed them and they died. The book is joyous and colorful. The snippets above are used to give the reader a sense of what to expect.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another fix of Durrell family fun
Comment: I eagerly read this after "My Family and Other Animals" (which I had enjoyed immensely). It contains stories which were omitted from "My Family" and while the offerings were still magical and wonderfully well-written and sometimes hilarious (especially the story about the turtle), it lacked the memorability of its predecessor. There was also no real structure in the order of the stories, this is more of a miscellaneous collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: My family and other animals
Comment: I read Gerald Durrell's books 10 years ago, while I was still living in Romania. I loved his books from the first page to the last and literally I couldn't put them down until I finished them. The best humour I ever met in books! His stile is unique. I am planning on reading all of them again in English. I would recommend them to anyone!
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Title: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell ISBN: 014028902X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Zoo in My Luggage by Ralph Thompson, Gerald Malcolm Durrell ISBN: 0140020845 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Fauna and Family: An Account of the Durrell Family of Corfu by Gerald Malcolm Durrell ISBN: 0671247298 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: January, 1980 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Menagerie Manor by Gerald Malcolm Durrell ISBN: 0140025227 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1975 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Whispering Land by Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Ralph Thompson ISBN: 0140020837 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1975 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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