My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

A memoir by British naturalist opening the trilogy about his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu📖🐾🦎🦀🦉

👉Do you love to laugh, love nature, agree that family is united not by syrupy attitude, but by keen sense of humour? Then this book is for you!

🎨Here you’ll find unusually beautiful, vivid and imaginative descriptions of nature.
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The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled among themselves, or took experimental runs from place to place, rolling like coloured hoops among the trees.

🐾Here you’ll read exciting and bright, accurate and witty observations of animals.
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The Magenpies had been through the room as thoroughly as any Secret Service agent searching for missing plans.

😉And of course, author’s relatives as well as their friends and acquaintances.
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‘It’s all your fault, Mother,’ said Larry austerely; ‘you shouldn’t have brought us up to be so selfish.’ ‘I like that!’ exclaimed Mother. ‘I never did anything of the sort!’ ‘Well, we didn’t get as selfish as this without some guidance,’ said Larry.