Author: GERALD DURRELL
Title: My Family and Other Animals. No. 28
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2014. Linnen band. Pp: 381. In 1935, the Durrell family sold their house and - like a flock of migrating swallows` fled from the depressing grey damp of an English summer to the Mediterranean warmth and colour of Corfu, where they would spend the next five years.nIt was, by normal standards, a rather wild and impulsive move, but the Durrell family " Gerry the youngest, already an obsessive naturalist, his gun-mad brother Leslie, their literary older brother Larry, adolescent sister Margo and vague but ever-game mother " were a family who didn`t operate by normal standards.nHaving arrived on the island they were quickly taken under the wing of the huge and quaintly English-speaking operator Spiro Hakiaopulos ( - Don`ts you worrys yourselfs about anythings, Mrs Durrells, leaves everythings to me`). Soon he had them settled in a strawberry-pink villa with a flower-filled garden which was, as Gerry immediately discovered, home to every imaginable kind of insect. For Gerry, this was where Paradise began. For the next five years, despite his mother`s anxious attempts to educate him, he was allowed to run wild, glorying in the freedom and beauty of the island and getting to know a cast of characters " including an assortment of birds and animals " quite as eccentric as his own eccentric family. ISBN: 9781906562700. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562700
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Title: My Family and Other Animals. No. 28
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2014. Linnen band. Pp: 381. In 1935, the Durrell family sold their house and - like a flock of migrating swallows` fled from the depressing grey damp of an English summer to the Mediterranean warmth and colour of Corfu, where they would spend the next five years.nIt was, by normal standards, a rather wild and impulsive move, but the Durrell family " Gerry the youngest, already an obsessive naturalist, his gun-mad brother Leslie, their literary older brother Larry, adolescent sister Margo and vague but ever-game mother " were a family who didn`t operate by normal standards.nHaving arrived on the island they were quickly taken under the wing of the huge and quaintly English-speaking operator Spiro Hakiaopulos ( - Don`ts you worrys yourselfs about anythings, Mrs Durrells, leaves everythings to me`). Soon he had them settled in a strawberry-pink villa with a flower-filled garden which was, as Gerry immediately discovered, home to every imaginable kind of insect. For Gerry, this was where Paradise began. For the next five years, despite his mother`s anxious attempts to educate him, he was allowed to run wild, glorying in the freedom and beauty of the island and getting to know a cast of characters " including an assortment of birds and animals " quite as eccentric as his own eccentric family. ISBN: 9781906562700. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562700
Price: EUR 25.00 = appr. US$ 27.17 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2189874
- Book number: 2189874
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