The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Maxwell was born in 1914. In 1945 he bought the small Hebridean island of Soay and tried to establish a shark fisher. This resulted in his first book Harpoon at a Venture. His other books include Ring of Bright Water, which sold more than a million copies, The Rocks Remain, The House of Elrig and Raven Seek Thy Brother. Gavin Maxwell died in 1969. Klappentext Gavin Maxwell was born in 1914. In 1945 he bought the small Hebridean island of Soay and tried to establish a shark fisher. This resulted in his first book Harpoon at a Venture. His other books include Ring of Bright Water, which sold more than a million copies, The Rocks Remain, The House of Elrig and Raven Seek Thy Brother. Gavin Maxwell died in 1969. Zusammenfassung The author went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. This title chronicles his life with these playful animals in this natural paradise and the story of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of the settlement.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Maxwell, Maxwell Gavin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780140290493
• ISBN: 978-0-14-029049-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 199 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; NATURE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Scotland, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Wildlife: general interest, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands