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Title	:	Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water #1)
Author	:	Gavin Maxwell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	October 6th 1987 by Penguin Books (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Animals. Environment. Nature. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. Scotland

Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water #1)

Gavin Maxwell

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 2700 Users | 165 Reviews

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This is the first edition of the popular wildlife book Ring Of Bright Water from 1959, with groups of accomplished black and white photographs by the author, 69 in all. Most are full page, and others half page. They are both of the otter Mijbil, whom he brought back from the Tigris marshes of Iraq, Edal, a female otter who arrived later, and of the beautiful Camusfeàrna (a pseudonym for the remote corner of Scotland where he lived). There are also line drawings, mostly by Peter Scott, the famous wildlife artist.

I remember exactly when I first heard of this book. It was at school preparing for "O" levels, and we were all very excited when the teacher brought in a pile of brand new hardback books. This was unheard of. Usually we would be issued with ancient, rather fusty copies of the classics, which we would have to go through, rubbing out any pencil marks, mending with sellotape, and backing in brown paper. You rarely got a "nice" copy. But these ... Crisp white pages, a smooth solid cover - it even smelled nice! I couldn't wait to read it.

What's more, it was a story about how one man lived in a remote cottage, in the West Highlands of Scotland, with an otter he had tamed:



"Camusfeàrna"

What a dream of a life! I fell in love, and thanked the examination board, who in their wisdom, had been bold enough to select this potential classic, thereby forcing my rather parsimonious and very traditional grammar school to spend some money, and as a result kickstarting my enthusiasm. I bought my own paperback as soon as I was able. This was ten years after the book had first been published, and I have read it several times since.

I now have an excuse to read it again, and will write my review on my Large Print edition of this famous book.

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Original Title:	Ring of Bright Water
ISBN:	0140249729 (ISBN13: 9780140249729)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ring of Bright Water #1
Setting:	Sandaig Bay, Knoydart, Scotland Knoydart, Scotland

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At the begining of the book I found it quite hard going. Very descriptive of scenery and for me it dragged. I was desperate to hear about the otter and he didn't appear until after page 40. However once he started getting into Mij and his antics and how he coped with living with an otter it was a fantastic read. For those non animals lovers I don't know how much if at all this book would appeal to you but I enjoyed it and will be reading no.2 soon.

Extremely interesting and engaging, this book details how Gavin Maxwell first fell in love with the otter and began his fascinating journey in caring for them. If you like animals, nature, Scotland, cold beaches and/or memoirs of unusual people then this book will be of interest to you.

A wonderful book to read when you are neither here, nor there. Eye opening. Good to read before bed. Not much substance, except for the substance of place, which is vivid, and the relationship between an otter and a human.

I osmosed the movie based on Ring of Bright Water as an animal-obsessed kid, and read the book not long after. While I imagine that some British neomarxist critics might furrow their brows at Maxwell's use of a pastoral escape device that drives the plot, I'm not coldhearted (or disentangled from ideology) enough to dismiss Maxwell's love of both the rustic Scottish seascape, and of otterkind. Devastatingly sad at times, but sleek and beautiful, this is an animal story classic that has mostly

I think this book has to be in my absolute top ten of all time. There is something timeless about this book, and the core tenets (love and loyalty) are universal and translate across the decades. The sense of place you get from Maxwells writing is amazing and the sentiment is palpable. A must have for anyone with a love of both good stories and animals.

Gavin Maxwell is a dark and complex figure. That he loved the natural world is obvious in his writing, that his relationship with it was appropriative and at times abusive is also true. Holding wild animals as pets, for his own emotional succour was simply dismaying to read. My stomach turned throughout this book. That the otters all died terrible deaths says much to me about the dangers of the wildlife trade, the arrogance of humankind and the casual disregard for a creature's right to their

This is the first edition of the popular wildlife book Ring Of Bright Water from 1959, with groups of accomplished black and white photographs by the author, 69 in all. Most are full page, and others half page. They are both of the otter Mijbil, whom he brought back from the Tigris marshes of Iraq, Edal, a female otter who arrived later, and of the beautiful Camusfeàrna (a pseudonym for the remote corner of Scotland where he lived). There are also line drawings, mostly by Peter Scott, the famous