Island of Dreams - A Personal History of a Remarkable Place

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell''s Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance to move to Maxwell''s former home, a tiny island on the western seaboard of the Highlands of Scotland. 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 otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with Boothby''s own story is a quest to better understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell. Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, Island of Dreams is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Boothby, Boothby Dan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9781509800773
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-0077-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travel guides > Europe; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Travel writing, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides