The Corfu trilogy is the unofficial name for three
autobiographical books by British naturalist
Gerald Durrell
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservation movement, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo o ...
, giving humorous, exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised stories of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the
Greek
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island of
Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the
Durrell family The Durrell family was an English family, two of whose members were best-selling writers. It has been the subject of several autobiographies, the TV series '' My Family and Other Animals'' (1987), the television film '' My Family and Other Animals'' ...
in a humorous manner, and explores the fauna of the island. A television series based on the trilogy, ''
The Durrells'', aired for four series from 3 April 2016 to 12 May 2019.
The three books are:
* ''
My Family and Other Animals
''My Family and Other Animals'' (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on ...
'' (1956);
* ''
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives'' (1969); and
* ''
The Garden of the Gods
''The Garden of the Gods'' (American title: ''Fauna and Family'') (1978) by British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) is the third book in his autobiographical Corfu trilogy, following '' My Family and Other Animals'' and '' ...
(American title: Fauna and Family)'' (1978).
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