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Gavin Maxwell: A Life

Douglas Botting

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Description:The life of the man who wrote Ring of Bright Water. This is the first full length biography of Gavin Maxwell - a tour de force, as evocative of the places and creatures in Maxwell's life as of the man himself. Never had the simple life been pursued by so complicated a character. Grandson of the Duke of Northumberland, Maxwell never knew his father, (killed in battle in 1914) the year of his birth.His childhood spent at the isolated Scottish ancestral home of Elrig and his wartime training SOE agents in survival techniques he later took up shark hunting on the Hebridean isle of Soay - the subject of his first book, Harpoon at a Venture. It was the explorer Wildfred Thesiger who introduced Maxwell to otters in the Tigris Marshes of Iraq. Ring of Bright Water, his classic account of life with otters brought him worldwide fame as an outstanding writer and a latter day eccentric int he grand manner.The book is illustrated with maps and photographs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gavin Maxwell: A Life. To get started finding Gavin Maxwell: A Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 585

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Harper Collins

Release: 1994

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Description: The life of the man who wrote Ring of Bright Water. This is the first full length biography of Gavin Maxwell - a tour de force, as evocative of the places and creatures in Maxwell's life as of the man himself. Never had the simple life been pursued by so complicated a character. Grandson of the Duke of Northumberland, Maxwell never knew his father, (killed in battle in 1914) the year of his birth.His childhood spent at the isolated Scottish ancestral home of Elrig and his wartime training SOE agents in survival techniques he later took up shark hunting on the Hebridean isle of Soay - the subject of his first book, Harpoon at a Venture. It was the explorer Wildfred Thesiger who introduced Maxwell to otters in the Tigris Marshes of Iraq. Ring of Bright Water, his classic account of life with otters brought him worldwide fame as an outstanding writer and a latter day eccentric int he grand manner.The book is illustrated with maps and photographs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gavin Maxwell: A Life. To get started finding Gavin Maxwell: A Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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