The Garden of the Gods - The Corfu Trilogy

The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV''s television series The Durrells.br>br>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.br>br>''A wild and amusing chronicle'' Daily Expressbr>br>''This book, an evocation of a budding naturalist''s life as a boy on Corfu, will delight many readers, even those who can''t stand spiders...'' Evening Standardbr>br>''Delightful, charming, funny'' The Times>

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Delightful, charming, funny The Times

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Durrell, Durrell Gerald
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9780241981672
• ISBN: 978-0-241-98167-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Corfu Trilogy; The Corfu Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; NATURE / Animals / General, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, Greece, natural history, Travel writing, Corfu, Wildlife: general interest, Greek Islands, c 1930 to c 1939, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Sociology: family and relationships