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My Family and Other Animals
First edition
AuthorGerald Durrell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGerald Durrell's Corfu Saga
SubjectGerald Durrell's life in Corfu
GenreAutobiography
Published1956 Rupert Hart-Davis
ISBN0755111974 (hardcover edition)
ISBN 0141321873 (paperback edition)
Followed byBirds, Beasts, and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods 

My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner, and explores the fauna of the island. It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which also includes Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) and The Garden of the Gods (1978).

Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when he published My Family and Other Animals in 1956. Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family – including his eldest brother Lawrence Durrell, who became a celebrated novelist and poet – and his heartfelt appreciation of the natural world made it very successful. Durrell was able to found the Jersey Zoological Park (now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park) in the Channel Islands. He also became known as a novel-writer and television personality. His books helped stimulate the development of tourism in Corfu.[1]

  1. ^ Botting, Douglas (1999). Gerald Durrell – The Authorised Biography. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255660-X.

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