This chronicle of life with the wild creatures, and especially the domesticated otters on the west coast of Scotland, has never before been published in a single narrative of Gavin Maxwell's own words. Edited by Austin Chinn, the book contains new photographs of the otters and the Scottish landscape.
This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Maxwell's three non-fiction books, published in the 1960s, and the basis of the 1969 motion picture.
This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969).
Reading level: 3 orange].
Gavin Maxwell: The Life of the Man who Wrote Ring of Bright Water
Island of Dreams is about Boothby's time living there, and about the natural and human history that surrounded him; it's about the people he meets and the stories they tell, and about his engagement with this remote landscape, including the ...
Gavin Maxwell lived at Camusfearna, facing Skye on the Sound of Sleat, for many years. This is a self-portrait full of anecdotes, descriptions of people and landscapes, birds and animals, times of comedy and tragedy."
Modernisation has arrived at Camusfearna, Gavin Maxwell's cottage on the West Highland coast.
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