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Nature General Interest
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My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Gerald Malcolm Durrell
As a self-described "champion of small uglies," English writer Gerald Durrell
(1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from
the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other
Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of
Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that
were, according to him, "rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and
slapstick comic operas."
As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with "all those items that I
thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on
natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in
imminent danger of turning into chrysalids." Durrell's descriptions of his
family and its many eccentric hangers-on (he stresses that "all the anecdotes
about the island and the islanders are absolutely true") are highly entertaining,
as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms,
octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely
book. [review, amazon.com]
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The Marine Biology Coloring Book, by Thomas M. Niesen, Wynn Kapit
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10 Minute Ecologist : 20 Answered Questions for Busy People
Facing Environmental Issues, by John Janovy, Jr.
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Suburban Nature Guide, by David Mohrhardt, Richard E. Schinkel
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