Gerald Durrell The Corfu Trilogy (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Corfu TrilogyCondition: NewEAN: 9780141028415ISBN: 9780141028415Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/03/2006Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 45mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Gerald DurrellLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0141028416Description: *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 Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things' New York TimesCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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