My family & other animals / Gerald Durrell.
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TextPublisher: London : Puffin Books, 2016Copyright date: ©1956. Description: 372 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141374109 (paperback)Other title: My family and other animalsSubject(s): Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature | Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995 -- Homes and haunts -- Greece -- Corfu Island -- Juvenile literature | Durrell family -- Juvenile literature | Zoologists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Corfu Island (Greece) -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 590.92 Summary: 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 . . . Gerald joyfully pursues his interest in natural history in the midsts of an unconventional and chaotic family life - all brilliantly retold in this very funny book.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | B/590 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111063521585 |
"First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis 1956" -- Title page verso.
10+ years.
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 . . . Gerald joyfully pursues his interest in natural history in the midsts of an unconventional and chaotic family life - all brilliantly retold in this very funny book.
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