The Garden of the Gods

''Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities'' - Sunday Telegraph

''My collection of animals swelled to a point where even Mother occasionally grew alarmed''

The island of Corfu, where the Durrell family live in agreeable chaos, is paradise for aspiring naturalist Gerald. His battalion of creatures has grown to include eleven puppies, a toad named Dierdre and an unwelcome infestation of scorpions. Yet the human visitors to their sun-drenched villa are even more curious, whether it is an innocent pair of American painters ripe for practical jokes, or a supercilious Count who barely survives an outing on Gerald''s home-made boat, the Bootle-bumtrinket. The third volume in the Corfu Trilogy brings this glorious tale of halcyon days to a close.<>

A propos de l'auteur

Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme, Two in the Bush¸ which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gerald Durrell
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 02.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241762967
• ISBN: 978-0-241-76296-7
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Thème: The Corfu Trilogy
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Biographies, autobiographies; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; NATURE / Animals / General, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / 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, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs