Die nächsten Nachbarn wohnen einige Kilometer entfernt und können nur über einen kaum zu befahrenden Weg erreicht werden, Einkäufe werden per Bestellung auf der Nachbarinsel erledigt und das nächste Krankenhaus ist über 100 Kilometer und somit mehrere Stunden entfernt. I’ve had to delve back into the wilderness, reconnect with nature and take a fresh look at the intensity by which animal life functions, to begin to make any sense of it. The story is fictional, but is adapted from the 1960 autobiographical book of the same name by Gavin Maxwell. Though if you want to read an excellent book about Otters, read the aforementioned book by Darlington.

Perhaps the transition was already occurring when William Fiennes’ beautiful The Snow Geese was published back in 2002 (so, soon after 9/11). Home media [ edit ] DVD packaging (2004); the artwork differs substantially from the original film poster. After Oxford University and wartime service he bought the Hebridean island of Soay where he tried to establish a commercial shark fishery, an experience described in his first book Harpoon at a Venture (1952).Inadvertently, her words had once again given a gift to the man she loved: his next book, Raven, Seek Thy Brother, which used the narrative framework of the curse of ‘a poetess’ to lay the decline of his now world-famous Highland paradise at her feet. However, it’ll be eternally sunny up there, so I’ll be lying about catching up on my reading, endlessly, on the rabbit-cropped sward in the beer garden. The saddest part is the gross neglect of the Otters, essentially each kept in solitary confinement without human or animal contact, and how he casually resumes his 'relationship' with these Otters FOUR YEARS later!

Binding is sound but binding glue is probably a bit brittle due to age so book should be opened and used gently. A lot of my childhood holidays were spent in Scotland so I could identify with the countryside and I loved learning about all the different otters and the mayhem they caused. Wer bei dem Buch eine romantische Geschichte über einen Tierliebhaber erwartet, der sich in die Einsamkeit zurückzieht um nur für seine Tiere dazusein, wird enttäuscht werden. The ring of bright water erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte der Otter, sondern auch des Menschen Gavin Maxwell und den Problemen, die das Leben in der Einsamkeit mit sich bringt.As we around the planet: the insects missing from the car radiator after a long drive at night or, as Maxwell describes, the migration of eel fry or ‘elvers’ from the Sargassum Sea* to the Scottish west coast. He was born in Scotland in 1914 to Lieutenant-Colonel Aymer Maxwell and Lady Mary Percy, whose father was the seventh Duke of Northumberland. Trotzdem liebt er die Tiere aus tiefstem Herzen und nimmt alle Unannehmlichkeiten in Kauf, um ihnen ein Leben zu bieten, dass so artgerecht wie möglich ist. Without wildlife, Earth would not be habitable for humans, because it's animals thatstabilise ecosystems. Among Maxwell’s colourful and prosaic descriptions of the life he built in the remote wilderness of Camusfeàrna, he ventures to describe the burgeoning of spring and the bounteous arrival of wildlife to his bay.

Tight sound copy with Black pen remainder slash to top of book otherwise a minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. His arrogance and naivety is astounding at times and in direct contrast to the persona he tries to put across. I found the prose to be some of the most descriptive I have ever read despite the book being an account of one disaster after another.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. Ring of Bright Water is a book by Gavin Maxwell about his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland where he kept several wild otters as pets. In this beautiful memoir, naturalist Gavin Maxwell chronicles his time living with otters in the remote Scottish Highlands.