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.
The procession of Animals includes toads, and tortoises, bats and butterflies scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and.
Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist), the Family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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