Birds, Beasts And Relatives: Gerald Durrell (The Corfu Trilogy)

Durrell, Gerald

ISBN 10: 0241981654 ISBN 13: 9780241981658

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2017

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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.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.

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Críticas:

Delightful, charming, funny (The Times)

A wild and amusing chronicle (Daily Express)

Contraportada:

'We were going back to Corfu. We were going back to the enchanted olive groves and blue sea, to the warmth and laughter of our friends, to the long, golden, gentle days . . .'
In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young Gerry continues to be captivated by the fascinating flora and fauna of their adopted home - much to the bemusement and upset of his long suffering siblings and mother.

Whether it's lamp fishing by night or roving the countryside with his mentor Theodore, Gerry encounters intoxicated hedgehogs, tarantulas, dung beetles, water spiders and other animals, some of which become the family's very unwanted pets.

'A wild and amusing chronicle' Daily Express

Book Two of the Corfu trilogy
[thumbnails of all three titles]

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241981654
• ISBN 13: 9780241981658
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1