9780141028415-0141028416-Corfu Trilogy

Corfu Trilogy

ISBN-13: 9780141028415
ISBN-10: 0141028416
Author: Gerald Durrell
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Penguin UK
Format: Paperback 768 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780141028415
ISBN-10: 0141028416
Author: Gerald Durrell
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Penguin UK
Format: Paperback 768 pages

Summary

Corfu Trilogy (ISBN-13: 9780141028415 and ISBN-10: 0141028416), written by authors Gerald Durrell, was published by Penguin UK in 2006. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Corfu Trilogy (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.01.

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The trilogy that inspired ITV's television 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. Durrell's memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales, loved by generations of adults and children alike, which are now available in one volume for the first time. 'He has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentrics' Sunday Telegraph '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 Times

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Jul 21, 2021

This is an excellent book to enjoy and to better understand nature, Greece and its people, and the English as well. It is very witty and entertaining as well!

Excellent organization and the writing is superb.

I really liked all aspects of the book, but if I would change it in some way, I guess it would be to shorten some of the detailed descriptions of some of the insects. Although that said, I certainly learned a lot from these descriptions and I feel that I can now better appreciate insects in general.