![]() ![]() If you watched and enjoyed the series but haven’t yet read the book, I would encourage you to do so. ‘My Family and Other Animals’ is an account of the time in Corfu he shared with his mother, his sister, two brothers, a bunch of Greek friends and a menagerie of animals. ![]() It was with encouragement from his brother that Durrell was persuaded to write about his life’s work. He founded the Jersey Zoological Park and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, and David Attenborough has been quoted as naming Gerald Durrell as his inspiration. In later life, this led Durrell onto numerous expeditions all over the world. There he developed an already burgeoning passion for animals, wild life and eventually conservation. Fear not I am back! Relatively recent Sunday night viewing of the televised ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell led me to borrow this bestselling and much-loved classic book from my mum, in an attempt to see what I had been missing out on all these years.įor those who don’t know although I imagine most people reading this do, at the age of 10, Gerald Durrell moved with his unwieldy family to the Greek island of Corfu. ![]() A recent preoccupation with running, a short break to Venice and a long spell reading the almost 1000 pages of David Copperfield has resulted in fewer blog posts and in particular fewer book reviews than usual. ![]()
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