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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
- 252 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1969
- 18 editions
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1 About this book
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the second volume of his autobiographical Corfu trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978. The trilogy are memoirs about his childhood with his family between 1935 and 1939, when they lived on the Greek island of Corfu.
As in the first book, the well-known My Family and Other Animals (1956), Durrell intersperses humorous family anecdotes with rich descriptions of the fauna and flora of Corfu. It was a formative period for his immersion in and enthusiasm for natural history. Published in 1969, this book followed the huge success of My Family. Durrell wrote Birds, Beasts and Relatives primarily to raise money for his animal-collecting expeditions.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a true life story, nature, and travel writing.
- Biography
- Natural history
- Animals
- Description and travel
- Zoologists
- Correspondence, reminiscences
- Birds
2 About Gerald Malcolm Durrell
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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