The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV\"s television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked......

Ten-year-old Gerald doesn\"t know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bit like a zoo so they should feel right at home......

This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the family......

My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell....

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....

This is the story of how Gerald Durrell\'s dream of owning his own zoo grew into the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, a major force in wildlife conservation. The author of My Family and Other Animals has collected many rare and exotic animals to save them from extinction....

\"I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife ......

\"In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes... it was Lewis Carroll\"s Jabberwocky come to life... one of the most incredible......

This very funny story is about an English family who go to live on the Greek island of Corfu. Gerald, the youngest boy, loves animals and insects. He brings scorpions, spiders, birds, snakes and other animals to the house, and they get him into lots......

Sometimes it\'s pretty hard to tell them apart...my family and the animals, that is. I don\'t know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home....

\"When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand\". Gerald Durrell......

This is the true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo. Journeying to the Cameroons, he and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of Bafut, managed to collect \'plenty beef....

Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Durrell\'s dazzling sequel to \"My Family and Other Animals\" is based on his boyhood on the Greek Island of Corfu from 1935 to 1939 and filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder....

Полный, неадаптированный текст книги известного зоолога Джеральда Даррелла \\\"Зоопарк в моем багаже\\\" (1960). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем....

\"For many years I had wanted to start a zoo... any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted......