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A bewitching book (Sunday Times )
Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities (Sunday Telegraph )
Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities (Sunday Telegraph )
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A bewitching book Sunday Times Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities Sunday Telegraph
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Childhood, nature and Greece: what a perfect mix?
17 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
I first read this book more than forty years ago, and have re-read it periodically since then a half dozen times. I have given copies to my children, and to nieces and nephews. If you love children, or nature, or Greece...this is the book for you. If you do not fit in that category, get a life!
Gerald Durrell may have written his books to fund his Zoo, but he is a born story teller, and the stories he tells are the best. I spent three summers in Greece as a child, and he has captured the langorous, limpid azure of the Greek skies in his prose, and the fascination of the abundant Nature of the Mediterranean. It does not hurt that his family, including Lawrence Durrell, are obviously all characters, and that their life was peppered with nutty occurences that may or may not be embellished a tad.
To give this luminous classic anything less than five stars is niggardly and down right mean. Buy it. Treasure it. Reread it and give it to all the kids you know (and a few worthy adults as well)...
Gerald Durrell may have written his books to fund his Zoo, but he is a born story teller, and the stories he tells are the best. I spent three summers in Greece as a child, and he has captured the langorous, limpid azure of the Greek skies in his prose, and the fascination of the abundant Nature of the Mediterranean. It does not hurt that his family, including Lawrence Durrell, are obviously all characters, and that their life was peppered with nutty occurences that may or may not be embellished a tad.
To give this luminous classic anything less than five stars is niggardly and down right mean. Buy it. Treasure it. Reread it and give it to all the kids you know (and a few worthy adults as well)...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
the print was too tiny
4 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
I loved this book as a child so I purchased it for my son. However, he can not read it since the print is tiny. It must be a 5font or close to that. I would get a headache trying to read it and he looked scared that I was going to make him read this book with the tiny print.
The stories are fantastic but I would not purchase this printing of the book again.
The stories are fantastic but I would not purchase this printing of the book again.
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31 Dec 2010
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Lovely book. Nicely written. If you didn't want to go to the Greek isles before, you will after you read this.
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