When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.
On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone. He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist. In 1958 Gerald Durrell realised a lifelong dream when he set up the Jersey Zoological Park, followed a few years later by the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.
Durell was married twice; Jacquie Durrell (1951-1979), Lee Durrell (1979-1995).
Gerald Durrell's style is exuberant, passionate and acutely observed. Gerald Durrell died in 1995.
冬天的时候读希腊三部曲,感觉整个房间里都吹着希腊的海风,一个有趣的家庭,一段奇妙有趣的童年往事,总是让人会心一笑,戏中充满暖意。 作者达雷尔在泽西动物园埋下一个时空胶囊,里面有一封给未来人类的信,心里这样说: “我们希望未来会有萤火虫在夜晚指引你,会有蝴蝶在...
評分这一部因该是个记忆的补完,我是因为英剧《德雷尔的一家》才去读的原著,虽说原著没有影视剧那么戏剧化,但是却更显的细腻生活。两个作品都是佳作。 书中的一家人并不贫瘠,各种饕餮盛宴,让人垂涎欲滴,有趣的生活浪漫温馨。他们会在深夜的海里畅游,月光照印下海豚相伴。会把...
評分在等女儿下课的闲隙中很偶然的拿起这本书,没想到刚刚打开书页就被他深深吸引住了。一个十岁的小男孩不用上学,天天在阳光明媚的希腊小岛上晃悠,山坡上捉捉虫,海岸边打打滚,不用劳累于案牍,伤神于成绩,自由自在滴接受大自然的教育。。。。。。 作者说:“科孚...
評分每个人童年都有很多的梦想,也拥有属于自己的一种颜色,但生活在大都市的我们很难有那么一种体验,金黄色的阳光,暖暖的海滩,四处奔跑的小动物,可以蹲在树底下呆呆的透过晃动的树叶观察阳光的颜色,也可以在草丛中潜伏着等待着一只昆虫的出现,一切都显得那么的亲切自然,完...
評分这一部因该是个记忆的补完,我是因为英剧《德雷尔的一家》才去读的原著,虽说原著没有影视剧那么戏剧化,但是却更显的细腻生活。两个作品都是佳作。 书中的一家人并不贫瘠,各种饕餮盛宴,让人垂涎欲滴,有趣的生活浪漫温馨。他们会在深夜的海里畅游,月光照印下海豚相伴。会把...
多年前讀過一個中文版,現在哪裏都找不到瞭。很特彆很動人的書。作者是個自然學傢,動物園主,特彆愛動物的人,從書名就看得齣來。他的文筆特彆幽默,因為下意識裏從動物的角度看待世界,於是行文總是齣人意料。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell
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评分這樣的生活!除瞭迷人的大小動植物、景色描寫外,每次搬傢的 conversation 章節也非常有趣。“兒戲”的挪窩理由,讓你覺得啊生活真的可以,有無數種可能。
评分Writing came naturally to Gerald Durrell, so did humor. Nearly forgot how professional British could be at being socially awkward.???? Carry on folks.
评分這樣的生活!除瞭迷人的大小動植物、景色描寫外,每次搬傢的 conversation 章節也非常有趣。“兒戲”的挪窩理由,讓你覺得啊生活真的可以,有無數種可能。
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