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My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell ISBN 9780670499113
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Gerald Durrell ISBN 9780670499113
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This book by Gerald Durrell came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Michael Lewis. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
“memoirs that I've given more than once the people Clive James is unreliable memoirs Gerald Darrell's my family and other animals essentially comic memoirs”— Michael Lewis
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