365 Books: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Perhaps you saw the BBC/PBS series, The Durrells in Corfu, which is sort of based on the stories in this book. It disappointed me. But it would have been impossible, I think, to capture what makes this book special in a TV series - it would need to have long stretches of wildlife photography, straight …

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