Gavin Maxwell, Longman Publishing Staff. liant tropical birds , who flew at liberty about my sittingroom ; they proved to be both less insanitary and less dangerous than Kiko . If Camusfeàrna had lacked one obvious element of ...
For the first time the entire trilogy is available in a single narrative in this beautifully presented book.
Reading level: 3 orange].
Edited by Austin Chinn, the book contains new photographs of the otters and the Scottish landscape.
Gavin Maxwell: The Life of the Man who Wrote Ring of Bright Water
In Otter, human geographer Daniel Allen reveals how the animal’s identity has been shaped by this variety of human interactions.
Tarka the Otter is one of the defining masterpieces of modern nature writing, a model for books like J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine that seek to transcend the boundaries between the human and the animal worlds.
Modernisation has arrived at Camusfearna, Gavin Maxwell's cottage on the West Highland coast.
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."
This, his first book, tells the whole story—the challenge and drama of the shark hunt, the development of catching techniques and equipment, the men who worked with him, and some of the frustrations of starting a new enterprise in post ...