TY - BOOK AU - Durrell, Gerald TI - My Family and Other Animals SN - 978-0-241-97665-4 CY - UK KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Gerald Durrell KW - Non-Fiction N2 - Fed up of the cold and wet, the Durrell family - diet - obsessed Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, together with their widower mother and Roger the dog - abandon British for the island of Corfu. The Durrell find the island is a beautiful paradise, and a cornucopia of wildlife. Inspired to collect scorpions, geckos, toads, bats, butterflies and any other creatures that take his fancy, young Gerald plunges their new home into confusion and chaos ER -