The Corfu Trilogy
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Pages
- 768
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 3, 2006
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-102841-5
- GTIN
- 9780141028415
- Weight, g
- 522
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
*The classic trilogy set in sun-soaked Corfu that inspired ITV's acclaimed TV series The Durrells*
Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise — My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell — are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy.
Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession ... causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.
'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals — but, above all, childhood moulded by these things' New York Times