Harpoon At A Venture

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857907042

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Harpoon at a Venture by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

In this memoir, the Scottish naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water recounts his post-World War II life as a shark fisherman in the Hebrides. A shark fishery based on the tiny Hebridean island of Soay was the beginning of Gavin Maxwell’s enduring love affair with the west coast of Scotland. 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-war Scotland. Every chapter is packed with action and anecdote. In each there are also beautifully observed descriptions of sky, sea and the individual islands of the Hebrides as well as their wildlife—from gannets, puffins, Manx shearwaters, and fulmars to seals, dolphins, and whales.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Shark fisheries
ISBN : OCLC:49561310

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Harpoon Venture by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107119017

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British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar by Gill Plain Pdf

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

Author : Colin Speedie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691232454

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A Sea Monster's Tale by Colin Speedie Pdf

There are few marine creatures as spectacular as the Basking Shark. At up to 11 metres in length and seven tonnes in weight, this colossal, plankton-feeding fish is one of the largest in the world, second only to the whale shark. Historically, Basking Sharks were a familiar sight in the northern hemisphere – off the coasts of Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the USA, for example. In an 18th Century world without electricity, they became the focus of active hunting for their huge livers containing large amounts of valuable oil, primarily used in lamps. Catch numbers were small enough to leave populations largely intact, but during the 20th Century a new breed of hunter joined the fray, some driven as much by a need for adventure as for financial gain. With improved equipment and experience, they exploited the shark on an industrial scale that drastically reduced numbers, leading to localised near-extinction in some areas. From the 1970’s onward a new generation took to the seas, this time with conservation in mind to identify where the shark might still be found in the waters around the British Isles, employing new technologies to solve long-standing mysteries about the behaviour of this elusive creature. Using the best of both old and new research techniques, the case was built to justify the species becoming one of the most protected sharks in the oceans. Today, the Basking Shark is a much-loved cornerstone of our natural heritage. There are positive signs that the population has stabilised and may even be slowly recovering from the damage of the past, proving that timely conservation measures can be effective. Join us on a journey amidst wild seas, places, people and conservation history in the battle to protect this iconic creature – a true sea monster’s tale.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Longman
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0582416884

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Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.

Author : Mark Cocker
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002397664

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Loneliness and Time by Mark Cocker Pdf

""Refreshing, original and eminently readable" (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers - including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell - and of the places - Greece, Tibet - that obsessed them." "In scrutinizing the deep drives that impelled these men to the outer reaches, Cocker makes clear the immensely powerful idea of the journey as quest, as pilgrimage, and how it has come to carry mythological and spiritual import. In each portrait, the journey's meaning is unearthed layer by layer, and we see not only how it operates in the lives of the travelers themselves but its importance to the modern industrial and largely secular societies from which these figures emerge." "Cocker shows how foreign landscapes and their inhabitants have been used by travel writers as a means to self-definition as well as a source of image, fantasy, even self-image. Loneliness and Time illuminates the appeal of travel - the desire to explore the unfamiliar and the strange - that captivates us all."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dan Boothby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781509800766

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Island of Dreams by Dan Boothby Pdf

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.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192870872

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Nature Prose by Dominic Head Pdf

Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.

Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590209950

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Wilfred Thesiger by Alexander Maitland Pdf

“A perceptive and gripping biography” of the enigmatic British explorer, photographer, and author of Arabian Sands (Daily Mail, UK). Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, journeyed for sixty years to some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth, from the mountains of western Asia to the marshes of Iraq. The author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime. Yet his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized biography—written with Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the rich Thesiger archive—Alexander Maitland investigates this fascinating figure’s family influences, his wartime experiences, his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist, his writing and photography, his friendships with Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived, and his now-acknowledged homosexuality.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781567924848

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Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he was captivated by an otter and became a devoted advocate of and spokesman for the species. He moved to a remote house in the Scottish highlands, co-habiting there with three otters and living an idyllic and isolated life – at least for a while. Fate, fame, and fire conspired against this paradise, and it, too, came to an end, though the journey was filled with incident and wonder. Maxwell was also talented as an artist, and his sinuous line drawings of these amphibious and engaging creatures, and the homes they occupied, illustrate his story. This book stands as a lasting tribute to a man, his work, and his passion. It was received and has endured as a classic for its portrait not only of otters but also of a man who endured heartaches and disappointments, whose life embodied both greatness and tragedy. He writes with rare eloquence about his birth, his devotion to the beloved Scottish highlands, and the wildlife he loved, while refusing to ignore the darker aspects of his nature and of nature in its larger sense.

Author : Denis Fairfax
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1862320942

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The Basking Shark in Scotland by Denis Fairfax Pdf

The Basking Shark in Scotland is based on archival sources, early historical works and interviews with surviving shark hunters. This 'gentle giant' of the seas, the largest fish in Scottish waters, is nowadays often in the news as conservationists press for its legal protection. Denis Fairfax provides a full history of the fishery for the shark, its anatomy and its biology. The basking shark's scientific history is treated extensively, including the Loch Ranza specimen featured by Thomas Pennant in his British Zoology. Shark incidents are recounted, including the famous Carradale incident of 1937 when an encounter with a basking shark led to the drowning of three people.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281344

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1A: Books

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : CHI:43795800

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Gavin Maxwell by Douglas Botting Pdf

Author : Stephen Bodio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762794034

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Sportsman's Library by Stephen Bodio Pdf

100 Essential, Engaging, Offbeat, and Occasionally Odd Fishing and Hunting Books for the Adventurous Reader

Author : Stephen Bodio
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781632200761

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On the Edge of the Wild by Stephen Bodio Pdf

“This book is a collage in essays about the kind of life I found worth living so far,” writes author Stephen J. Bodio. On the Edge of the Wild is a stunning collection that shares Bodio’s love for the country, wilderness, literature, and much more. With compelling stories about moving to Montana, treasured shotguns, and his absolute love of cooking, readers will be hooked by the beautiful way in which Bodio shares his feelings about life and the outdoors. The thought-provoking essays in On the Edge of the Wild will appeal to those who enjoy living off the land as well as those who appreciate the detail and way that Bodio paints a picture of his travels. The incredible array of stories shows the deep appreciation and respect that he has for nature, including the wonderful animals that grace his presence. From dogs to falcons, the love shared by this naturalist will be something that readers treasure and hope to one day be able to share through experiences similar to the ones Bodio has lived.