- Hardcover: 191 pages
- Publisher: Collins; First Reprint edition (1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002112485
- ISBN-13: 978-0002112482
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 318,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Gerry Durrell has a talent for writing in that grey area between serious and hilarious, a job that very few do well... and he does it as well as it can be done. This is book full of charming stories, that anyone, of any age, will love. I notice so few of his books are still in print, something that is a terrible shame. I grew up wanting to be him, and this is a book that for adults gives a wonderful insight, and for kiddies will just make you laugh yourself to sleep.
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The late, great conservationalist and zoologist Gerald Durrell encountered many extraordinary animals in his life, and it is our good fortune that some of them were human. And it is also a blessed happenstance that his brother Lawrence was a renowned novelist. Durrell thus writes with effortless vivacity and humour about an assortment of animal-human adventures, from the time he was marooned with his eccentric family on a deserted Mediterranean cove, to the war-gaming old soldier with a secret in his six attics, to the adorable girlfriend who mugged the Queen's English with her every sentence. Enjoy!
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An evening on a Greek beach with a friend and a large bottle of retsina, and 'Fillets of Plaice' was born. It was to have been entitled 'Spirit of Place' but the friend's sense of humour was well lubricated and 'Fillets of Plaice' it became. Mr Durrell's reminiscences of his youth in Corfu and London, his wacky family and love of all animals never fail to enchant in this delightful series of humorous anecdotes.
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