Gavin Maxwell (eBook)

Douglas Botting (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
Eland Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78060-097-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agent, shark fisherman, racing driver, poet and travel writer. His books on Iraq, Sicily and Morocco were acclaimed, but his fame as a writer rested on his bestselling story of the otters he raised and lived with in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland, Ring of Bright Water. Maxwell's private life was every bit as turbulent. His essential homosexuality was masked by the love of a number of women, for whom he was a serially unsatisfactory partner. This authorized biography is a magnificent evocation of the man, his time and the animals and places that formed such an important part of it. Never was the simple life of a nature-loving conservationist pursued by so complicated a character.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: conservation • otters • Otters, Ring of Bright Water, Scotland, conservation • Ring of Bright Water • Scotland
• ISBN-10: 1-78060-097-6 / 1780600976
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78060-097-0 / 9781780600970