Ring of Bright Water (Bull's-eye S)

History

gavin-maxwell

Europe

Hutchinson

This book is full of marvellous anecdotes, descriptions of people, landscapes, birds and animals.  The author's travels to Iceland are combined with the West Highland setting of Camusfearna.

RAVEN SEEK THY BROTHER

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

A story of fresh delights, danger and disaster. The scenes in North Africa, mysterious, strange, sometimes farcical, throw into vivid focus the life at Camusfearna to which the author always returns.

Rocks Remain

Penguin Putnam~trade

This 1967 title is a portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Maxwell presents his impressions of these secluded people, along with numerous photos. Although intended as a travel book, this make more of a historical or sociological study now, given the...turmoil in Iraq.--Library Journal.

A reed shaken by the wind

Travel

Asia

A children's edition of the author's Ring of Bright Water. Black & white and color photographs throughout.

The Otters' Tale

Children's Books

Puffin

Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. Ring of Bright Water chronicles Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters and touched the hearts of readers the world over, brilliantly evoking life with these playful animals in this natural paradise. Two further volumes followed bringing the story full circle telling of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of teh settlement. For the first time the entire trilogy is available in a single narrative in this beautifully presented book.

The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy

Science, Nature & How It Works

Puffin Books

Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, `Lords of the Atlas' tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T'hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards.

Lords of the Atlas, the Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956s

Africa

Pan Books

God protect me from my friends

Macmillan

OTTERS' TALE

Harpoon at a venture

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

New English Library

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