Ring of Bright Water
- ISBN-10
- 0956254500
- ISBN-13
- 9780956254504
- Series
- Ring of Bright Water
- Category
- Natural history
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little Toller Books
- Author
- Gavin Maxwell
Description
Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man's relationship with the natural world. "One of the outstanding wildlife books of all time."-New York Herald Tribune First published 1960 by Longmans, Green & Co.
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