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Each family member suffers a physical ailment due, in Larry's opinion, to the dank climate.

The novel is a humorous study on human and animal behavior by a best-selling author and zoologist.Īugust has brought dreary, raining weather with it. The first in a trilogy of books on the island, My Family and Other Animals is a creative introduction to Gerald Durrell, child animal collector, and his eccentric family. The novel succeeds in being a creative mixture of natural history study and autobiographical account of the Durrell family as they live on Corfu for five years. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.My Family and Other Animals is an attempt at zoological dissertation on the island of Corfu, Greece. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Encouraged to write about his life’s work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. His first television programme, Two in the Bush which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962 he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family.

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. Why don’t we pack up and go to Greece?’ ‘Very well, dear, if you like,’ said Mother unguardedly.

‘I had a letter from George this morning – he says Corfu’s wonderful. ‘What we all need,’ said Larry, ‘is sunshine… a country where we can grow.’ ‘Yes, dear, that would be nice,’ agreed Mother, not really listening.