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1956

My Family and Other Animals

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Gerald Durrell - 1956

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu.

My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.

Saint Francis

Nikos Kazantzakis - 1956

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) was born in and lived in Greece most of his life.

He was the author of poetry, plays, articles and novels, including The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek and The Greek Passion.

The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault - 1956

In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates.

As their relationship develops, Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing the impact of this supreme philosopher whose influence spans epochs.

Water, Water, Everywhere

Emily Kimbrough - 1956

Pleasures, mishaps and gay adventures during a journey - most of it on boats - to Greece, through the Aegean, up the Dalmatian coast and down the Thames.

An account of the authors own adventures traveling to Greece, Islands in the Aegean and to Yugoslavia. Contains many illustrations by Mircea Vasiliu.

Natural History, Volume VII: Books 24-27. Index of Plants.

Pliny the Elder - 1956

Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic "Natural History," in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of Roman knowledge.The contents of the books are as follows.

Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.