We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Also I have been forced to leave out many happenings and characters that I would have liked to describe.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. In order to compress five years of incident, observation, and pleasant living into something a little less lengthy than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, I have been forced to telescope, prune, and graft, so that there is little left of the original continuity of events. My mother also insists that I explain that she is a widow for, as she so penetratingly observed, you never know what people might think. We have never been very certain of my mother's age, for the simple reason that she can never remember her date of birth all I can say is that she was old enough to have four children. To explain some of their more curious ways, however, I feel that I should state that at the time we were in Corfu the family were all quite young: Larry, the eldest, was twenty-three Leslie was nineteen Margo eighteen while I was the youngest, being of the tender and impressionable age of ten. I have attempted to draw an accurate and unexaggerated picture of my family in the following pages they appear as I saw them. It was only with the greatest difficulty, and by exercising considerable cunning, that I managed to retain a few pages here and there which I could devote exclusively to animals. Having got themselves on paper, they then proceeded to establish themselves and invite various friends to share the chapters. It was originally intended to be a mildly nostalgic account of the natural history of the island, but I made a grave mistake by introducing my family into the book in the first few pages. " As You Like It " To My Mother The Speech for the Defence "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' The White Queen-Alice Through the Looking-Glass THIS is the story of a five-year sojourn that I and my family made on the Greek island of Corfu.
MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS Gerald Durrell It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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