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Fauna & Family: More Adventures of the Durrell Family of Corfu (Nonpareil Books) (original 1978; edition 2012)

by Gerald Durrell

Series: Corfu Trilogy (3)

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Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's adventures with animalsâ??and humansâ??on a Greek island.
When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around himâ??and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell's years growing up on Corfu would inspire the rest of his life.

In addition to his tales of wild animals, Durrell recounts stories about his even wilder familyâ??including his widowed mother, Louisa, and elder siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margoâ??with undeniable wit and humor.

The final chapter in Durrell's reflections on his family's time in Greece before the start of World War II, The Garden of the Gods is a fascinating look at the childhood of a naturalist who was ahead of his time.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author's estate.… (more)

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Title:Fauna & Family: More Adventures of the Durrell Family of Corfu (Nonpareil Books)
Authors:Gerald Durrell
Info:David R Godine (2012), Edition: First, Paperback, 192 pages
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The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell (1978)

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I've been a fan of Gerald Durrell since 1960 when I read My Family and Other Animals. I didn't know until recently that later Durrell wrote two sequels to My Family and made it into a trilogy. The second book Birds Beasts and Relatives was more adult and continued that same great stories of the author and his family in Corfu. I was unsure if a third book in the series would not be just rehashing the stories already told from a slightly older angle. But I was pleased to find that this book too is a delight. It has some new to me stories about Gerald, his mother and his siblings. Some new characters are introduced, mostly friends of Lawrence Durrell who come to visit the Durrell family at their rented Corfu villa. Gerald Durrell wrote over 30 books in his life. I may not read all of them but I am glad that I discovered The Garden of the Gods. ( )
1 vote MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |
Durrell has again dug back into his childhood and the four year stint on the Greek island of Corfu for the next installment of his memoir series. This time sister Margo's relationships and brother Leslie's gun obsession take more of a center stage but don't worry, Gerald's "pets" still abound. He still has plenty of stories regarding the mishaps involving animals. Another constant is all of the Durrell children continue to lie to mother and she continues to eat it up, no questions asked, just like one of Gerald's baby birds.
I have to wonder if the family was as fun loving and accepting of the practical jokes and antics as they seem to be? What kind of household welcomes perfect strangers into their home as guests? Especially ones with no intention of leaving? And speaking of guests, what mother would put up with dead birds falling at her feet while she tried to entertain a prominent guest?
All in all, exaggerated antics aside, Garden of the Gods is a charming and funny book. ( )
  SeriousGrace | Jun 26, 2020 |
more tales of the Durrell family on Corfu
  ritaer | Mar 14, 2020 |
By this stage I've learnt what to expect from a Gerald Durrell book - there were no great surprises here, but simply a lovely time spent with characters I've come to know and love. ( )
1 vote soylentgreen23 | Jun 20, 2019 |
The last in the Durrell trilogy, and I think the best. After reading the series we found the video made in 2007. I very good accounting - preferred it to the most recent PBS version. ( )
1 vote addunn3 | Feb 6, 2019 |
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This book is for Ann Peters, at one time my secretary and always my friend, because she loves Corfu and probably knows it better than I do.
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That summer was a particularly rich one; it seemed as if the sun had drawn up a special bounty from the island for never had we had such an abundance of fruit and flowers, never had the sea been so warm and filled with fish, never had so many birds reared their young, or butterflies and other insects hatched and shimmered across the countryside.
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Biography & Autobiography. Nature. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:

Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's adventures with animalsâ??and humansâ??on a Greek island.
When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around himâ??and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell's years growing up on Corfu would inspire the rest of his life.

In addition to his tales of wild animals, Durrell recounts stories about his even wilder familyâ??including his widowed mother, Louisa, and elder siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margoâ??with undeniable wit and humor.

The final chapter in Durrell's reflections on his family's time in Greece before the start of World War II, The Garden of the Gods is a fascinating look at the childhood of a naturalist who was ahead of his time.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author's estate.

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Fauna and Family, also known as The Garden of the Gods, is the third in Durrell's Corfu trilogy that begins with his beloved classic, My Family and Other Animals and continues with Birds, Beasts and Relatives. In his foreword to Fauna and Family, Durrell confessed that in the first two books, "I had left out a number of incidents and characters that I would have liked to have described, and I have attempted to repair this omission in this book . . . I hope that it might give the same pleasure to its readers as apparently its predecessors have done, as for me it portrays a very important part of my life . . . which is a truly happy and sunlit childhood."
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