The Corfu Trilogy

DETAILS : 

Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date :3 August 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 768 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141028416
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780141028415
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 600 g

ABOUT THE BOOK 

The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell deals with the adventures of a strange but loving English family in the enchanted land of Corfu.
Summary Of The Book
The Corfu Trilogy consists of three hugely popular books which are My Family And Other Animals, Birds Beasts And Relatives, and The Garden Of The Gods. These stories narrate the strange adventures of an English family that is full of endearing quirks.
The author’s own love for animals and humor is intertwined in these books. The magical land of Corfu provides the readers with an alternative world where humans and beasts live in harmony.
The books introduce Gerald, an aspiring zoologist. His ideal paradise is Corfu, where he takes care of all the animals and living creatures he can find. However, life is not smooth or simple for him. His family is against his animal collection habit, especially when he stores some of the animals in their fridge.
The Corfu Trilogy, published in the 1930s, became hugely popular for its glimpse into a one-of-a-kind magical childhood. This edition is a 2006 reprint.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

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.