First Folio Edition (2006). Illustrated title-spread, numerous coloured illustrations, with a number being full-page and decorative endpapers. The covers are in like new condition with the cream pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red, backstrip lettered in red, a fine copy in publisher's burgundy board slip-case. Already elusive in this condition.
 
The book is an autobiographical work 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 the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner, and explores the fauna of the island. It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy.