Ring of Bright water by Gavin Maxwell (HQ645)

Published 1961: First Edition, Fourth Impression / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 211 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (HQ645)

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Ring of Bright Water is a book by Gavin Maxwell about his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland where he kept several wild otters as pets. First published in 1960, it became a best seller and is considered a literary masterpiece, eventually selling over two million copies.

Ring of Bright Water is an autobiographical work by Gavin Maxwell. 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.

Review
"One of the outstanding wildlife books of all time." -New York Herald Tribune

About the Author
Gavin Maxwell was born in 1914. In 1945 he bought the small Hebridean island of Soay and tried to establish a shark fishery. This resulted in his first book, Harpoon at a Venture. In 1960 Ring of Bright Water appeared, of which there are more than a million copies in print in English. An abridged and pictorial children's version, The Otter's Tale, was published in 1962, and a sequel, The Rocks Remain, in 1963. Gavin Maxwell died in 1969.

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