A humourous and motivating autobiography. A family moves to Corfu, and their hilarious meetings with the local people, birds and beasts are sure to delight the student.
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (January 7, 1925 - January 30, 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter.
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Childhood, nature and Greece: what a perfect mix?,
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This review is from: My Family and Other Animals (Cascades) (Hardcover)
I first read this book more than forty years ago, and have re-read it periodically since then a half dozen times. I have given copies to my children, and to nieces and nephews. If you love children, or nature, or Greece...this is the book for you. If you do not fit in that category, get a life!Gerald Durrell may have written his books to fund his Zoo, but he is a born story teller, and the stories he tells are the best. I spent three summers in Greece as a child, and he has captured the langorous, limpid azure of the Greek skies in his prose, and the fascination of the abundant Nature of the Mediterranean. It does not hurt that his family, including Lawrence Durrell, are obviously all characters, and that their life was peppered with nutty occurences that may or may not be embellished a tad. To give this luminous classic anything less than five stars is niggardly and down right mean. Buy it. Treasure it. Reread it and give it to all the kids you know (and a few worthy adults as well)...
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the print was too tiny,
This review is from: My Family and Other Animals (Cascades) (Hardcover)
I loved this book as a child so I purchased it for my son. However, he can not read it since the print is tiny. It must be a 5font or close to that. I would get a headache trying to read it and he looked scared that I was going to make him read this book with the tiny print.The stories are fantastic but I would not purchase this printing of the book again.
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This review is from: My Family and Other Animals (Cascades) (Hardcover)
Lovely book. Nicely written. If you didn't want to go to the Greek isles before, you will after you read this.
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