My Family and Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

  6 The Sweet Spring

  Conversation

  Part Two

  7 The Daffodil-yellow Villa

  8 The Tortoise Hills

  9 The World in a Wall

  10 The Pageant of Fireflies

  11 The Enchanted Archipelago

  12 The Woodcock Winter

  Conversation

  Part Three

  13 The Snow-white Villa

  14 The Talking Flowers

  15 The Cyclamen Woods

  16 The Lake of Lilies

  17 The Chessboard Fields

  18 An Entertainment With Animals

  The Return

  Beasts, and Relatives

  Contents

  Conversation

  Part One Perama

  1 The Christening

  2 The Bay of Olives

  3 The Myrtle Forests

  Part Two Kontokali

  4 The Pygmy Jungle

  5 Cuttlefish and Crabs

  Interlude for Spirits

  6 The Olive Merry-go-round

  7 Owls and Aristocracy

  Part Three Criseda

  8 Hedgehogs and Sea-dogs

  9 The Talking Head

  10 The Angry Barrels

  Epilogue

  Mail

  The Garden of the Gods

  Contents

  1 Dogs, Dormice, and Disorder

  2 Ghosts and Spiders

  3 The Garden of the Gods

  4 The Elements of Spring

  5 Fakirs and Fiestas

  6 The Royal Occasion

  7 The Paths of Love

  8 The Merriment of Friendship