The Ring Of Bright Water Trilogy

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Longman
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Henry Williamson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : CHI:43795800

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Gavin Maxwell by Douglas Botting Pdf

Author : Dan Boothby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429913461

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Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier Pdf

Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Eland & Sickle Moon Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0907871143

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Lords of the Atlas by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Tells the extraordinary story of a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 067088992X

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The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780863159367

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The Coming of the Unicorn by Duncan Williamson Pdf

Stories are something you carry with you, something to last your entire life, to be passed on to your children, and their children for evermore.' Duncan Williamson came from a family of Travelling People, who told stories around the campfire for entertainment and for teaching. As a child, Duncan learnt the ways of the world through stories: 'My father's knowledge told us how to live in this world as natural human beings -- not to be greedy, not to be foolish, not to be daft or selfish -- by stories.' In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales. For over sixty years Duncan travelled around Scotland -- on foot, then in a horse and cart, and later an old van -- collecting tales, which not only come from the Travelling People but from the crofters, farmers and shepherds he met along the way. This collection includes tales about cunning foxes and storytelling cats, hunchbacked ogres and beautiful unicorns, helpful broonies and mysterious fairies, rich kings and fearsome warriors, as well as those about ordinary folk trying to make their way in the world. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Little Toller Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Nora Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515141658

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Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts Pdf

The Circle Trilogy begins with an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity… In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea… Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family’s embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world—and those beyond it… Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan’s charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power strong enough to overcome Lilith. A circle of six: himself, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms, and the one he’s lost. And it is in this circle, hundreds of years in the future, where Hoyt will learn how strong his spirit—and his heart—have become… Don’t miss the other books in the Circle Trilogy Dance of the Gods Valley of Silence

Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140249729

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Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Stoires about animals and the natural world.