Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

First UK edition
Author	Gerald Durrell
Cover artist	Eileen Walton (UK edition)
Language	English
Series	Gerald Durrell's Corfu Saga
Subject	Gerald Durrell's life in Corfu
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Collins (UK) Viking Press (US)
Publication date	1969
Publication place	United Kingdom
ISBN	0140043853
Preceded by	My Family and Other Animals
Followed by	The Garden of the Gods

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the second volume of his autobiographical Corfu trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978. The trilogy are memoirs about his childhood with his family between 1935 and 1939, when they lived on the Greek island of Corfu.

As in the first book, the well-known My Family and Other Animals (1956), Durrell intersperses humorous family anecdotes with rich descriptions of the fauna and flora of Corfu. It was a formative period for his immersion in and enthusiasm for natural history. Published in 1969, this book followed the huge success of My Family. Durrell wrote Birds, Beasts and Relatives primarily to raise money for his animal-collecting expeditions.