Folio Society Published Works Number 3227
Maxwell, Gavin - Ring of Bright Water
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Maxwell, Gavin - Ring of Bright Water (Published in by The Folio Society in 2015. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane. Gavin Maxwell's beloved memoir about life with otters is published here with previously unseen colour photographs. 'It haunts me with its darkness, as well as thrilling me with its beauties'. ROBERT MACFARLANE. 'This book, then, is about my life in a lonely cottage on the north-west coast of Scotland, about animals that have shared it with me . In a landscape of rock and sea.' Thus did Gavin Maxwell introduce his best-selling memoir, one of the most popular wildlife books of all time. Travelling in Iraq in 1956 with Wilfred Thesiger, Maxwell was given an otter cub he named Mijbil and brought him back to his isolated cottage in the West Highlands of Scotland. Mijbil was followed by another otter, Edal, and further creatures including a flock of tame greylag geese and – briefly – a wildcat kitten. Production Details. . Quarter-bound in buckram with printed Modigliani paper sides. Set in Goudy Old Style with Castellar display. 256 pages; frontispiece and 16 pages of colour and black & white plates and integrated black & white chapter headings. Printed endpapers. 9" × 6.25". )
