Gerald Durrell

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is the second volume of the autobiographical Corfu Trilogy by naturalist Gerald Durrell. The trilogy describes his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. Like its predecessor, the more famous My Family and Other Animals, Durrell intersperses humorous family …

Eläimet ja muu kotiväkeni on Gerald Durrellin kirjoittama, vuonna 1956 julkaistu romaani. Se kertoo Durrellin lapsuudesta vuosilta 1935−1939, jonka hänen perheensä vietti Korfun saarella Kreikassa. Suomeksi teos julkaistiin 1972.

'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared …