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Gavin Maxwell

A Life
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Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agent, shark fisherman, racing driver, poet and travel writer. His fame rested on the bestselling story of the otters he brought back from Iraq and raised and lived with on the west coast of Scotland, Ring of Bright Water. Maxwell's private life was turbulent. His essential homosexuality was masked by the love of a number of women, for whom he was a serially unsatisfactory partner. Never was the simple life pursued by so complicated a character. '...totally absorbing, wonderfully written and very penetrating ... What an extraordinary story!' - David Attenborough

Author Biography:

Douglas Botting was a trusted friend of Gavin Maxwell in the last 12 years of his life and a fellow explorer-traveller-writer, so was uniquely equipped to understand both the creative and destructive demons that drove him. He has created an empathetic study of a man, which reads like the most bizarre and eccentric adventure story, for that is what it is.
Release date NZ
March 22nd, 2017
Contributor
  • With Douglas Botting
Pages
512
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781780601069
Product ID
26419831

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