Ring Of Bright Water

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Longman
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Daniel Allen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861898937

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Otter by Daniel Allen Pdf

Although rarely seen in the wild, the otter is admired for its playful character and graceful aquatic agility, fixed in the popular imagination through books and films such as Tarka the Otter and Ring of Bright Water. This is just a small part of its story, however: throughout history, the otter has been hunted for its fur and to prevent it from killing fish. Featuring numerous images from nature and culture, as well as examples from folklore, sports, and literature, this wide-ranging book also explores the movement against otter hunting, and the ongoing efforts promoting otter conservation. A fittingly lively study of its subject, Otter offers a new way of thinking about this much-loved but endangered animal.

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : CHI:43795800

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Gavin Maxwell by Douglas Botting Pdf

Author : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603588652

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The Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz Pdf

In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us first to China’s Loess Plateau, where a landmark project has successfully restored a blighted region the size of Belgium, lifting millions of people out of poverty. She journeys on to Norway, where a young indigenous reindeer herder challenges the most powerful orthodoxies of conservation—and his own government. And in the Middle East, she follows the visionary work of an ambitious young American as he attempts to re-engineer the desert ecosystem, using plants as his most sophisticated technology. Schwartz explores regenerative solutions across a range of landscapes: deserts, grasslands, tropics, tundra, Mediterranean. She also highlights various human landscapes, the legacy of colonialism and industrial agriculture, and the endurance of indigenous knowledge. The Reindeer Chronicles demonstrates how solutions to seemingly intractable problems can come from the unlikeliest of places, and how the restoration of local water, carbon, nutrient, and energy cycles can play a dramatic role in stabilizing the global climate. Ultimately, it reveals how much is in our hands if we can find a way to work together and follow nature’s lead.

Author : Henry Williamson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141359281

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Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Pdf

The classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 1842625284

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The Rocks Remain by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Modernisation has arrived at Camusfearna, Gavin Maxwell's cottage on the West Highland coast. Along with the new otters, Teko, Mossy, Monday and others, comes the installation of electricity, extensions to the buildings and additions to the transport facilities."

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443403252

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Truth And Bright Water by Thomas King Pdf

With a plethora of superb reviews and upcoming publication in the US, Thomas King’s latest work affirms him as one of our wittiest and wisest writers. Truth & Bright Water is the tale of two young cousins and one long summer. Tecumseh and Lum live in Truth, a small American town, and Bright Water, the reserve across the border and over the river. Family is the only reason most of the people stay in the towns, and yet old secrets and new mysteries keep pulling the more nomadic residents back to the fold. Monroe Swimmer, famous Indian artist, returns to live in the old church with the hope of painting it into the prairie landscape and re-establishing the buffalo population. Tecumseh’s Aunt Cassie has come back too, already arguing with his mother. Why has his mother given Cassie a suitcase full of baby clothes? And why is Lum interested only in winning the Indian Days race? Tecumseh has more questions than anyone will answer, until the Indian Days festival arrives and the mysteries of the summer collide in love, betrayal and reconciliation. Equally plainspoken and poetic, comic and poignant, Truth & Bright Water is a crackling good story that resonates with universal truths.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Country life
ISBN : 1842625292

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Raven Seek They Brother by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Gavin Maxwell lived at Camusfearna, facing Skye on the Sound of Sleat, for many years. This is a self-portrait full of anecdotes, descriptions of people and landscapes, birds and animals, times of comedy and tragedy."

Author : Dan Boothby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Little Toller Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 0956254500

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Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Life with otters on the South-Western coast of Scotland.

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008189723

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The Otters’ Tale by Simon Cooper Pdf

Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 ‘The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far’ Richard Shelton, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547390701

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Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Pdf

Sunset Song is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Life is hard after her dad's death and she must take some tough decisions to save her farms under the inevitable threat of World War I . . . Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Chris Packham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473529427

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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham Pdf

Voted the UK’s Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger’s and Me Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, Chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds' eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. But pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. Beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you've ever read.